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YouTube is gradually becoming an “adtube” and there is nothing funny about it. By encouraging the popular bloggers to uncontrollably monetize their efforts, the platform got its video ads out of hand. I’m not here to moralize or to teach advertisers how to do their business. What we can change is the number of ads we see while watching our favorite YouTube shows. With that, I will announce several solutions:
- YouTube Premium. Yes, it costs $11.99/month, but it removes ads on all your devices. Your TV, PC, Android smartphone, everywhere. And it gives you access to features like background playback and picture-in-picture.
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NewPipe it’s a free, and open-source player for YouTube. It’s lightweight, but it offers the features you care most about: No ads, background playback, and picture-in-picture. NewPipe is the app I have personally used over the past couple of years. NewPipe isn’t available on the Play Store. But you can directly download the APK installer from their website, or you can find the app on the F-Droid app store (an alternate to Google Play Store, which hosts free and open source apps).
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SkyTube is another free and open-source third-party YouTube app, just like NewPipe. It also offers the basic features you’ll want, including no ads, and background payback.
The only real downside is that this is a view-only app. You can’t sign in to your YouTube account, so there’s no sync feature. The app has its own feature for channel subscriptions and bookmarks.
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uBlock Origin add-on for Firefox one clear reason for using Firefox over Google Chrome on Android is its huge gallery of free add-ons. And they’ll come really handy here. If you install the uBlock Origin add-on, you’ll get an ad-free YouTube experience in the browser. Go to Menu > Add-ons > and enable uBlock Origin. The downside? No features like offline downloads.
- Brave browser the app comes with an ad-blocking feature by default, and as long as you have enabled the Shields Up feature for the YouTube site, you should be good to go.
Before ending this topic I want to mention YouTube Vanced app.
The popular Vanced YouTube app is being discontinued, after a legal threat from Google. The creators of Vanced have revealed the project will be shut down in the coming days, with download links set to be removed. While the app will continue to work for anyone who currently has it installed on Android, without any future updates it’s likely to stop working at some point soon. The Vanced owners say they’ve had to discontinue the project “due to legal reasons.”
If you have Vanced installed right now, it will continue working for the foreseeable future.
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