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Don't use brave.

Absolutely do not use Brave. Just use Firefox mobile as well, it has ublock origin, sponsorblock, and background play.

It's still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings

yt-dlp is great for downloading media you've already found (or at least, playlists or creator channels you've already found), but you can't use it for discovering new media. You still need a browser or GUI app like FreeTube or Newpipe for that, and it works better when you're actually signed in with your Google account so that the recommendation algorithm works and it can keep track of what you watched for you.

Don't get me wrong; I would love to limit my interaction with Google to anonymously fetching video URLs. But none of the alternatives sync my watch history between devices or recommend new videos (beyond just new uploads from subscribed channels) to me.

I just use FreeTube. No ads, no logins, no tracking, no BS.

Any plugin claiming to bring back youtube dislikes usually does it with some off-site database, that can be easily manipulated, as the API for it has been deprecated completely.

sigh

The Brave browser is based on Chromium. Using it to get away from chrome does very little. Different browser, same engine.

UBO recommends firefox.

YSK with termux you can run yt-dlp on your phone

I don't see it here but the top comment on reddit for this post was that:

If you have a VPN with a server in Albania to switch to that because serving Ads during streaming is illegal there. I have yet to test it but sounds legit and no one was nay saying it.

Isn't mpv the more sensible option for, you know, watching videos?

Or just don't use YouTube at all

I just use ublock, but even if i didnt and used all the ones above that would be like what 5 min of my time, one time? Now you want me to directly download all the videos i may watch and somehow thats easier? Yeah im good, no ads for years now and thats all I want.

on ios you can also use firefox focus, it doesn’t have ads on youtube, but iirc you can’t stay logged in because it doesn’t save cookies (tho that could be a positive depending on how you look at it)

vivaldi ios also didn’t have ads on youtube, but it’s been a while since i used it so it may have changed and it’s a pretty heavy browser in my experience

orion also supports firefox/chrome extensions but in my experience it’s adblocking (even with ublock) isn’t perfect. but again, it’s been a while so maybe it’s better now

You can use Orion in iOS instead of Brave, which is shady as hell and owned by a bigot.

Newpipe, freetube & invidious.👌

STOP USING YOUTUBE. USE PEER TUBE.

If you are a content creator; especially a new creator, make peertube your default.

You can use Invidious too

Yt-dlp?

for android, you could use youtube revanced

it even has an option to replace the youtube text with youtube premium

Don't forget YouTube revanced for mobile.

NewPipe android app.

YouTube Search Fixer is also a must have extension. It removes all the bullshit yt is trying to feed you.

I have youtube run in its own dedicated browser (Librewolf) with Ublock Origin.

No ads. Works perfectly.

I may add the youtube shorts blocker, I hate those.