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Android Ad Blocker

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Anybody know of a good apk that blocks ads while watching YouTube on my phone app ?

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OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
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I don’t have a good ad blocker for you other than AdAway. It won’t block YouTube ads on an unrooted phone, but it can on a rooted one. You can try in-browser mobile YouTube with Firefox + uBlock, but I would suggest switching away from the native YouTube app and getting NewPipe with SponsorBlock from F-Droid.

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

EDIT: Corrected link to current NewPipe.

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mr_pink@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Isn’t that repo outdated? I use this

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OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
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You’re correct. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Fixed the link.

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BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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Thank you for your response. I’ll check it out

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OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
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Highly recommended. You can even export your subscriptions from YouTube and import them into NewPipe. But that’s for another thread. I use NewPipe almost exclusively now, having YouTube links pull up in NewPipe. No ads. And with SponsorBlock, you can skip the in-video ads (with community-driven data). Not to mention, you can also stream music from Bandcamp, and it supports PeerTube, etc, as well.

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newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
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but it doesn’t on unrooted Android

It actually has VPN mode which also works without root

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OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemm.ee
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That’s the only method for it to work on unrooted phones.

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newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
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Yes, but it works

You could also use a custom DNS like NextDNS on Android 10+, but it’s not as private as adaway

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CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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They’re saying it doesn’t work to block ads on YouTube and I can confirm that they’re correct.

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