Normally I use NewPipe on android. It’s an alternative YouTube app that can play videos in the background, doesn’t have ads and allows me to download videos and music.
I had the YouTube app disabled with adb on this phone for all the time I’ve had it. For backup there’s always the browser YouTube page.
I must have done something wrong and accidentally clicked install on the YouTube app again, so it activated and was back to normal on this phone.
Holy hell is that app a terrible advertising machine. Every time I click on a YouTube video now I get sent straight to it and it always plays ads and also has text ads all over the GUI so I can’t even read the channel info etc while I wait for the ads to go away.
I don’t know how people deal with that it would completely make me want to stop using YouTube.
Please do yourself a favor and install NewPipe or ReVanced (I think that’s the name of basically the same app but with sponsorblock additionally). Both are on f-droid.org app store as well. Less important because you can manually use NewPipe but you could also disable the YT app with adb so it disappears from your phone.
I like tubular since it has built in sponsorblock.
also revanced isn’t really the same thing it’s basically normal YouTube app with adblock and a lot of other nice to have features. still can use an account to sign in
Out of the NewPipe forks I’ve gone with PipePipe. I think it’s faster with updates and features but I don’t know if that was the reason I originally switched over
PipePipe has a Login option that NewPipe explicitly doesn’t want to implement to ensure anonymity, and thus, allows to watch restricted content.
I liked that pipepipe had a bunch of other services available but the lose of sponsorblock is a deal breaker for me.
According to the description on F-Droid, PipePipe has SponsorBlock, like Tubular.