So invidious isn’t working well at the moment, neither is piped. So I’m wondering what the best options are to watch YouTube right now?
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Firefox focus plays without ads
Vinegar (app)/vinegar extract (if you’re using adblockers) and safari. You can get rid of ads and support a small developer for like $2 I think.
I use Adguard premium i think that’ll work come to think of it, it’s a shame really that YouTube had to go to such lengths to try and stop people from not paying them to rid their site of ads
Personally, I use it through Safari with Wipr 2. Wipr’s developer is pretty active and responsive too. Another option is using Adguard Pro. Vinegar is a good option too, but it’s developer suggests us to use a different adblocker and use Vinegar for it’s main purpose of forcing the native HTML 5 player. If you’re okay with Brave’s crypto shenanigans, it works well with YouTube too.
I use YouTube almost always signed out. Along with icloud private relay enabled, it does minimise the amount of data that Google can collect. I would prefer to use Invidious or Piped, but they bug out quite often with YouTube playing a cat and mouse game.
I’m sideloading YouTubePlus IPA. I have tried most of the open-source options; however, Google captcha keeps causing issues.
Brave browser on iOS has ad block and can extract videos into playlist for offline viewing
Searching the Video with Andi and watching it in the search result, anonym, sandboxed and random proxie, without ads.
I’m using safari with adguard and vinegar, not logged in. works pretty well, especially being able to choose “audio only” and listening in background
Use the official app?
