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Android Ad Blocker (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anybody know of a good apk that blocks ads while watching YouTube on my phone app ?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I don't have a good ad blocker for you other than AdAway. It won't block YouTube ads on an unrooted phone, but it can on a rooted one. You can try in-browser mobile YouTube with Firefox + uBlock, but I would suggest switching away from the native YouTube app and getting NewPipe with SponsorBlock from F-Droid.

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

EDIT: Corrected link to current NewPipe.

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

Thank you for your response. I'll check it out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Highly recommended. You can even export your subscriptions from YouTube and import them into NewPipe. But that's for another thread. I use NewPipe almost exclusively now, having YouTube links pull up in NewPipe. No ads. And with SponsorBlock, you can skip the in-video ads (with community-driven data). Not to mention, you can also stream music from Bandcamp, and it supports PeerTube, etc, as well.

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

Isn't that repo outdated? I use this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You're correct. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Fixed the link.

[–] newIdentity -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

but it doesn't on unrooted Android

It actually has VPN mode which also works without root

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's the only method for it to work on unrooted phones.

[–] newIdentity 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, but it works

You could also use a custom DNS like NextDNS on Android 10+, but it's not as private as adaway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You need to add an Xposed module for it to block ads on YouTube though, requiring root. AdAway VPN mode on unrooted phones won't block YouTube ads. I just triple checked and tried it again to make sure I wasn't talking out of my ass.

[–] newIdentity 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ohh. That's what you mean

Yeah just use ReVanced

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They're saying it doesn't work to block ads on YouTube and I can confirm that they're correct.