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When people post YouTube links.. is there a cool open source way to watch it on mobile without going through youtube? Because when I click on a YouTube link and I'm on my phone and it immediately gives me an ad it's pissing me off like in a huge way.. is there a way to bypass ads without an ad blocker on my phone

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Good question, horrible post title. Keep the clickbait titles outta here.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

You can tell he watches a lot of youtube.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

On Android, install newpipe from f-droid and YouTube links should go to it automatically. No ads, lets you download videos, subscriptions are entirely local on your device, but right now display of comments is messed up. The last isn't a big deal for me. Ymmv.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Nice I have fdroid I can easily do this godbless

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

NewPipe is awesome, and you can set it to automatically open Youtube links.

https://newpipe.net/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Seconding NewPipe. It's the easiest to get set up, and once you get it set up you basically never have to touch it again.

YouTube Revanced is more user friendly and has more features once it's set up, but the install process is more involved and updating it essentially requires you to redo the install process again. It's nothing crazy, but NewPipe is the "set it and forget it" option IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i'm using it for a long time and always thought google wouldn't let you open youtube links in other apps.

i always copied the link and pasted it into newpipe. thanks to your comment i checked and diabled youtube automatic opening.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Thumbs down for the clickbait title.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Yes! You can use an alternative front end - you’ll have to watch in your browser.

There is a bot on some communities that will post the Piped Version. The other option is to use a version of Invidious which you can find here.

Clicking on a YouTube link will take you to the YouTube app if you have it. You’d have to copy and paste the link into the search fields of the above.

The other option is to use xvanced. I have not used it in a long time and I’m not sure of the current status but it should work.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Tubular on F-Droid is a fork of Newpipe (which is great too), "A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike"

It's my favorite front end so far.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

On Android there are lots of ways. Newpipe or Grayjay is probably the easiest. Revanced is a little more complex but is also good. You could also use Firefox with ublock origin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (9 children)

If you're on Android: Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

If you're on android, you can remove the setting that opens YouTube links on the native app. My YouTube links always open in firefox, with unblock and in a private window. So no ads, no permanent cookies. Lately the quality has been going down as Google forces adblockers users to have a worse experience, but still works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Another option other than new pipe is to download a YouTube apk and the revanced app. Ad free YouTube is what comes out of that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Libretube, tubular, newpipe, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i watch youtube with revanced, no open source but no ads

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

If on Android, use UntrackMe. When clicking on any YouTube link, or even Reddit, Twitter etc., select this app to open the link with. It will automatically redirect you to a privacy friendly frontend. Link YouTube to Invidious. You can customise the instances you want to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Newpipe, Libretube, Clipious. Those are front ends for youtube. I would recommend reading about them and cheling them out.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Great question, I usually close those immediately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So do I you have to press it like three times or four times to close it and it's really making me super stupid irrationally angry at a dumb phone and I'm so mad about it haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Meh. The phones give us less and less control and plenty to be annoyed over; but the ads are greedy, evil Google's fault. I'm taking heat over their horrible ~~air~~ ai (see what I mean? And it did wait until I couldn't see the word anymore!) autocorrect and/or packet loss on my phone. I really am biding my time, until I have time and money to switch to Fairphone or find alternative software that works with my hardware. Frankly, I wouldn't have a smartphone at all, if I didn't need it for certain things. Best of luck in your future endeavors, friend.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why you don't want to go thru YouTube or use an adblocker but if you have uBlock Origin installed on your Firefox browser as you should then it automatically blocks YouTube ads aswell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have ad blocker on my computer but when I'm on my mobile phone everything just sucks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can install ad-blocker on Firefox mobile aswell. Atleast on Android you can.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you looking for an app, or an alternative website?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So, among the other options, many communities here have a bit that drops piped links for all YT links.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://photon.lemmy.world/post/lemmy.world/13959063

Not quite as good as Tesseract (😉) but the dev finally did break down and add Youtube support.

Edit: My bad. Thought you were looking for a Lemmy client that handled YT vids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if you clicked and held the link if it would give you an "open with" prompt where you could choose an app like NewPipe or if you could have it auto redirect to a Piped source

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ooh cute idea I'm going to try that.. Wait tho, you said an app.... is new pipe good for YouTube? Do you have a better recommendation?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

https://grayjay.app/ if you're on android

edit: Firefox on Android also allows add-ons, so you can install ublock origin in the firefox android app and probably watch ad free that way as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

You know what's super creepy? A robot just responded to a post I made on a YouTube link and recommended piped as an open source alternative haha that shit was freaky as fuck lemmy is cool

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah there's lots. I feel like a lot of people use ReVanced but I've never tried it. I use NewPipe because it allows me to locally export my subscriptions and use the open source frontend Invidious on desktop.

A bit of a personal preference. I imagine one of the piracy megathreads would have a list of community favorites. FMHY or the one on dbz0 would be worth looking at.

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