When people post YouTube links… is there a cool open source way to watch it on mobile without going through youtube? Because when I click on a YouTube link and I’m on my phone and it immediately gives me an ad it’s pissing me off like in a huge way… is there a way to bypass ads without an ad blocker on my phone
On Android, install newpipe from f-droid and YouTube links should go to it automatically. No ads, lets you download videos, subscriptions are entirely local on your device, but right now display of comments is messed up. The last isn’t a big deal for me. Ymmv.
Nice I have fdroid I can easily do this godbless
NewPipe is awesome, and you can set it to automatically open Youtube links.
Thumbs down for the clickbait title.
Tubular on F-Droid is a fork of Newpipe (which is great too), “A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike”
It’s my favorite front end so far.
If you’re on android, you can remove the setting that opens YouTube links on the native app. My YouTube links always open in firefox, with unblock and in a private window. So no ads, no permanent cookies. Lately the quality has been going down as Google forces adblockers users to have a worse experience, but still works.
Libretube, tubular, newpipe, etc.
revanced
Another option other than new pipe is to download a YouTube apk and the revanced app. Ad free YouTube is what comes out of that.
This solution sounds easiest but also must technical haha I still don’t know how to use apks or whatever I don’t even really know what they are but I think I got it figured out anyway! Thank you for the replies
If on Android, use UntrackMe. When clicking on any YouTube link, or even Reddit, Twitter etc., select this app to open the link with. It will automatically redirect you to a privacy friendly frontend. Link YouTube to Invidious. You can customise the instances you want to use.
Newpipe, Libretube, Clipious. Those are front ends for youtube. I would recommend reading about them and cheling them out.
Nice
Libretube and Clipious are not fronts ends, they just use Piped and Invidious front ends respectively.
So, among the other options, many communities here have a bit that drops piped links for all YT links.
Yeah I’m liking all the suggestions it’s a pretty cool thread haha little bit overwhelming but I’ll get through it I think F Droid is going to be my best bet
I don’t know why you don’t want to go thru YouTube or use an adblocker but if you have uBlock Origin installed on your Firefox browser as you should then it automatically blocks YouTube ads aswell.
I have ad blocker on my computer but when I’m on my mobile phone everything just sucks
You can install ad-blocker on Firefox mobile aswell. Atleast on Android you can.
They’re probably talking about the YT app. Its ads cannot be bypassed with uBlock Origin.
I found all of the open source frontend to be slow and unreliable.
So I just use firefox with uBlock origin.
You could pay for the service 🤷♂️
I’m not paying a shitty company for a shitty product
Yet you are using it 🤷♂️
YouTube is great you’d never pay for it.
I get my content, in a great app, plus yt music for my entire family for $120 a year. That’s probably 400 hours worth of content for my entire family.
Good for you? Why are you so fucking pissed off at me? I’m just going to block you… I don’t have to justify my reasons on this planet for the way I am to you. If I don’t want to pay for YouTube I don’t have to pay for YouTube, and I’m still allowed to use it, get out of here.
No one is pissed at you. You just seriously over reacted
Calm down sir. You’re acting like they just threw your dog down a well.
