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Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by ncann »

Vanced is awesome, except for the fact that they broke casting to my TV a while ago so I had to downgrade to an older version and hasn't updated for a while. Not sure if they fixed it now.

Also I tried to find something similar to put on my iPad and my god it's annoying. iOS allows you to sideload app if you have a dev cert (not too sure on the details) but you have to renew the cert every 7 days or so, so you need to keep a server app running in the network to automatically renew the cert for you.

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by lenova »

I love Vanced! The only downside is that it's not able to avoid ads when casting to Chromecast.

SkyTube is a minimalistic Youtube Android client that can avoid ads when casting: https://github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube

For those of you using Android TV, I highly recommend SmartTubeNext, a Youtube client with no ads, and includes SponsorBlock[1]: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

[1] https://sponsor.ajay.app

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Post by luke2m »

ncann wrote: post #2

Vanced is awesome, except for the fact that they broke casting to my TV a while ago so I had to downgrade to an older version and hasn't updated for a while. Not sure if they fixed it now. Also I tried to find something similar to put on my iPad and my god it's annoying. iOS allows you to sideload app if you have a dev cert (not too sure on the details) but you have to renew the cert every 7 days or so, so you need t…

https://github.com/akemin-dayo/AppSync

Re: Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android

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Post by xwx »

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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