Are there any safe, functional apps for iOS mobile devices (specifically iPhone, but iPad would be nice too) that let you use Youtube without ads? Something like what Youtube Revanced is for Android.
In the AppStore, search Vinegar. Works for me. 👍
I recommend this. Firefox Focus works for free also
Just FYI for anybody that looks it up, it appears to be a paid application.
It’s a Safari extension for 1.99 USD
Use the Yattee app and connect it to your preferred invidious or piped instance.
Can also vouch for yattee
does it open Youtube links from other apps? I don’t use iOS but I’ve been wondering how viable it is to recommend it to friends who do as a replacement for the Youtube app.
I use Signtunes with uYouPlusExtra (on GitHub). This does not require a computer, but will cost you 10-15$ yearly to sideload without a computer. But Apple will allow sideloading SoonTM, so it might become free.
uYouPlus is no longer being actively developed, uYouPlusExtra is a fork under active development.
Firefox focus is free and works perfectly
Also perfectly fine, I just prefer the features the uYouPlus app offers. It’s not only ad blocking, but also sponsor blocking, pop out player, background playback, reordering tabs (so I can remove the annoying shorts tab), and a bunch more.
There are a handful of options if you’re looking for a tweaked version of the YouTube app (no jailbreak needed) with enhanced options (blocking ads, skipping sponsored segments, allowing downloads, enabling PiP)
I personally use YouTube Reborn Plus https://github.com/arichorn/YouTubeRebornPlus
As for loading the IPA onto my iPhone I use Sideloadly. https://sideloadly.io
I know a lot of others use AltStore. https://altstore.io
Keep in mind, if you have a paid Apple Dev account like myself you only have to load the app on your device once a year. But, if you have a free account you’ll need to do this weekly. That being said, that is why so many users prefer AltStore, it automates the process to ensure you don’t hit that weekly threshold.
Invidious+Yattee is how I roll.
There definitely is a way with jailbreaking, as I’m sure there are tweaks for youtube on the repos. But that requires an exploit.
With no jailbreak - you can sideload this: https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
I watch it in the orion browser with ublock
Anyone have anything that works on Apple TV? I have some invidious app or other that basically never works, at all.
I use an app called Orion, which is a browser, you can add extensions from Firefox and chrome.
Firefox Focus appears to let me play youtube without ads, but I’m unclear if it’s because I also have the Vinegar extension (which shouldn’t matter, since the extension itself says it only works in Safari.)
you can use the web version with adguard and it won’t show ads, though sometimes you have to refresh to get to the video
Brave browser. It has an ad blocker built in.
I can’t say how, but somehow I turned my iPhone XR into a black box that has no YouTube ads on Chrome.
Pay for premium in Argentina, set a VPN to verify, checks out for me. Family plan is so effing cheap.
Turkey also works. $0.50/mo with family, no KYC required.
Does doing this fuck with your recommendations? Or open your account to being banned if you don’t continue accessing it from the subscribed country?
Everything is fine for me.
Suggesting payment plans on a piracy oriented comm 🤔…
How? I want to do this but Google never allows me, something always breaks in the payment process
I can share with you a method to buy for Turkey.
- Make an account on the „FUPS” app. You will need a Turkish SIM to verify - 5sim.net is a very cheap option
- Buy a FUPS card from some online reseller. I’ve used this https://plati.io/itm/fups-card-turkish-card-for-psn-xbox-spotify/3565417
- Scan the card’s QR code in the FUPS app. You now can use the card to spend money from your FUPS account
- Use Revolut to convert money to Turkish liras, and use the „Card recipient” transfer option to add money to that account with basically 0 fees.
Now to buy a family subscription, I personally used an android virtual machine, on which, while connected to a Turkish VPN, I made a new account on a random Turkish address. Then just bought the sub in the YouTube app.
Afterwards, you can invite others to your family. But, they won’t be able to just join, they need to go to pay.google.com -> Settings -> Close payments profile
Then they need to add a CC to their account (doesn’t have to be Turkish), but make sure that they put a random Turkish billing address to that card. Wait ~10 minutes, and they can join the family, and after they’re in, they can re-do the google pay stuff to get it back to normal. Won’t kick them out.
Hey, thanks man! I actually managed, set my only payments profile to Ukraine and bought it that way, now it works!