I am looking for for an app that registers as a YouTube endpoint, but has no ads and tracking (or backdoors). I had one (forgot the name) which stopped working. Please advice.
You need ReVanced app, that’s new incarnation of Vanced app that ceased to work
Pretty sure that Revanced still has google tracking since its a patched version of the official app.
Also if anyone here intends to use it: Please be careful. The real revenced site (www.revanced.app) has awfull SEO and usualy appears way below fake websites (that sometimes spread malware). The only real websites are revanced.app and the github.
Also you have to patch the app yourself for copyright reasons so don’t trust and websites that offer a direct apk of revanced (the real website offers a manager app that you can use to patch the official app)
Revanced instructions (official Youtube app, but with adblocking, sponsorblock and other nice improvements).
- Uninstall Youtube (or disable if not possible)
- https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases
- Install
- Open, go to “Patcher”, find “Youtube” and download the specified recommended version from https://www.apkmirror.com/
- Patch it, install it.
- Install MicroG if you want to use your Google account with it: https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases
- Launch your installed youtube app. You will need to login from within the app if you are using MicroG.
Also you have to patch the app yourself
I thought I read someone was providing “clean” patched APKs now?
Newpipe + Sponsorblock is a really good option.
Removed the trending tab, made my tabs “What’s New” “Subscriptions” “Bookmarks” and “History”. Made a few categories in the Subscriptions tab to sort specific channel types into different feeds. Bunch of minor tweaks to the video player/SponsorBlock settings. Honestly I recommend just taking the time to go through all the settings to configure it exactly how you want.
NewPipe, NewPipe + Sponsorblock, PipePipe and LibreTube are pretty much all of them.
