Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by xwx on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:17PM (#30445066)

Vanced is pretty good. It seems like it's just the official YouTube app but with premium for free.

Newpipe is another ad-free YouTube app. https://newpipe.net/

It's FOSS and doesn't use your Google account, or any of the YouTube APIs. You can still manage subscriptions but you have to import them manually.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by operator-name on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:49PM (#30445479)

There's also this fork that includes sponsorblock: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by ranguna on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:57AM (#30451958)

A fork?

Venced has sponsor block by default.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by jcul on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:34AM (#30455161)

A fork of newpipe, not Vanced.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by ranguna on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:19AM (#30464854)

Ah yes makes sense!

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by kyriakos on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:12PM (#30445783)

Unfortunately it's very buggy and still not ready for full time use. Crashes all the time, importing subscriptions is hard. But it's FOSS and I still use it regardless cause vanced concerns me because it needs access to my account

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by yellowapple on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:30PM (#30446000)

It's a lot less crashy nowadays (at least from what I can tell from using it daily).

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by jthrowsitaway on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:49PM (#30450408)

I want to like NewPipe but I've always had problems with resuming videos after pausing them in the background. Most of the time my progress is just completely lost. Also, full screen and popover mode have been broken since Android 12. I use Vanced at this point.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by WickyNilliams on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:05AM (#30452967)

Resuming issues were bug in the last few versions, but has been fixed in the latest release.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by louky on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:30PM (#30458347)

Still broken for me, and I've used the thing for years - very familiar with the quirks.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by WickyNilliams on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:10PM (#30460983)

Also a long time user, but the issues described were only the last few months for me. Perhaps there are device specific bugs. I just rolled back to an earlier version until they were remedied

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by nyanpasu64 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:11PM (#30449775)

I assume most of NewPipe crashing when trying to open a video, is Google changing the YouTube video page to stop non-official clients from being able to watch the video.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by louky on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:29PM (#30458336)

NewPipe has had multiple unfixed regressions around opening videos, the pop-up player, and losing the time index of the current video.

They started (for me) in the version that addressed the youtube change then the last two did nothing to fix them (for me) I used NewPipe for years many hours a day on multiple tablets and this recent issues are the only ones that's a showstopper - I'm on Vanced until the next update.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by MisterSandman on Thursday February 24, 2022 @08:14AM (#30454249)

I personally use a different, fame account for Vanced. Most people should be doing that anyway because who knows when Google will crackdown on it and start blocking any account using Vanced.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by autoexec on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:28PM (#30445991)

Newpipe is what I use and I love it. I've seen it break on a few occupations and it could use a bit more polish, but it meets my needs. I might give Vanced a try at some point, but it looks like it wants access to your youtube account and lacks features I use. I'm pretty happy with Newpipe.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by dirtyid on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:11PM (#30445755)

https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist...

I use google spread sheet script to manage a bunch subscriptions into different private playlists accessible via sharelinks in Newpipe. Allows me to keep things in sync with youtube account on other devices.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by meibo on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:51PM (#30445493)

It explicitly doesn't provide Premium for free, all premium features but the picture in picture support are still locked behind purchase.

The standout features are ad- and sponsorblock.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by xwx on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:49PM (#30447693)

Huh, interesting. Maybe it's changed, maybe I'm misremembering.

In either case NewPipe has picture-in-picture playback and audio only playback. Not sure what else I'm missing from Premium.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by BipolarCapybara on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:40PM (#30445338)

In my expierience New Pipe is lacking. The fact you have to reimport the subscriptions manually is very tedious, besides I've found New Pipe breaks often and it won't let me load videos. It's pretty cool for listening to music while the screen is off, but I wouldn't recommend it as a daily Youtube driver.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by Krasnol on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:43PM (#30445393)

I've never seen it actually "break".

The only times it's not working is because YouTube changed something and you need to download a new version which works pretty good with the appropriate repo in F-Droid.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by BipolarCapybara on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:20PM (#30445872)

Did they fix that you have to update it only through GitHub?

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by Krasnol on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:24PM (#30445920)

I don't know when this was the case but it hasn't been since I've been using it.

I just added the repo to F-Droid: https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by pmontra on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:25PM (#30447426)

It tells me that there is a new version. It downloads it from somewhere and installs it. It could be GitHub but I don't know.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by whyoh on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:14PM (#30447980)

>The fact you have to reimport the subscriptions manually is very tedious

Why not just use RSS for Youtube updates? Or do you not use RSS at all?

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by bufferoverflow on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:43PM (#30445383)

As opposed to giving your Google password to Vanced?

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by mkdirp on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:46PM (#30445435)

You're not giving it to Vanced. It works through Micro G which uses Google's oauth flow to authenticate you.

Anyway, personally I've moved my YouTube account to a dummy account.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by BlameKaneda on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:15PM (#30445810)

I used to use Newpipe, but I realized that I couldn't port my YT playlists (how I keep track of music) to it. Vanced lets me log into my YT account so all of my playlists were available right off the bat.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by ranguna on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:58AM (#30451974)

Not only that, but also sponsorblock, awesome feature that skips sponsors mid video (it can also skip other things like intros and stuff)

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by ranguna on Friday February 25, 2022 @03:20AM (#30464857)

Correction: venced supports sponsorblock

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