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Youtube - like apps like piped.video, but as Android app? (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by bremen15@feddit.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

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[-] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago

You need ReVanced app, that's new incarnation of Vanced app that ceased to work

[-] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Revanced instructions (official Youtube app, but with adblocking, sponsorblock and other nice improvements).

  1. Uninstall Youtube (or disable if not possible)
  2. https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases
  3. Install
  4. Open, go to "Patcher", find "Youtube" and download the specified recommended version from https://www.apkmirror.com/
  5. Patch it, install it.
  6. Install MicroG if you want to use your Google account with it: https://github.com/TeamVanced/VancedMicroG/releases
  7. Launch your installed youtube app. You will need to login from within the app if you are using MicroG.
[-] jollyroger@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Does this require your phone to be rooted?

[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

No, not at all.

[-] jollyroger@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Weird got a message saying I needed root I'm switched to libretube for now, it's good

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Also you have to patch the app yourself

I thought I read someone was providing "clean" patched APKs now?

[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google might go after pathed apks, but you can't go after patches (which isn't apk).

EDIT: Google actually went after patched Vanced apk and got it off the internet. ReVanced was born afterwards shortly :)

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

with some nft bullshit from the cancer creators too, tbf

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