I will never pay for youtube.
I’ve been having a few problems with playback on ReVanced recently; it tends to buffer for a minute and the quality seems to be stuck on 480p. Any workarounds mentioned didn’t work for long.
Desktop with uBlock has been fine though.
Try morphe. It works perfect for me
Settings > Miscellaneous > Spoof video streams > Default client > VisionOS
Also make sure to clear app cache from time to time
Tried that, worked for a day or so and then it went back to buffering.
I had this issue, it was super annoying. I uninstalled and reinstalled with the latest update and everything worked great again and has been doing so for well over a year. I went down that rabbit hole of trying to update the spoofing settings per fuckyouspez threads and none of those recommendations ever worked for me. Hope this helps!
Is there any reason to use ReVanced when you can browse YouTube on Android’s Firefox with uBlock Origin installed? It seems to work about the same but you can also run other extensions like DeArrow and Sponsor Block. It can even stream at 4k for some videos.
Revanced does have a version of sponsorblock btw.
You could try grayjay. Worked better for me than revanced but still had the occasional video not loading
Grayjay is great, I’m using it all the time on desktop. It couldn’t replace YouTube on mobile for me though, I need MicroG integration
Does it? I installed through fdroid by adding FUTO repositories. As the other comment said, you then change the defaults
I wasn’t talking about opening links.
MicroG enables me to sign into YouTube using my Google account, as far as I know Grayjay doesn’t support this.
Oh, I sign into google for the age verification in grayjay. I’m not sure if that requires MicroG though.
Keep in mind the sign in for grayjay is only for age verification. It never pulled my subscribed channels or playlists into the app from the youtubr account. As far as I see, it only shows me recently watched videos and channels subbed through grayjay itself.
Revanced is dying because OSumAtrix, the lead dev, is so toxic every other developer decided to hard fork revanced and make Morphe.
What’s really sad is Osum is copying code religiously from Morphe, including typos. They also forget to change function names or comments to go from Morphe to Revanced. As a result, Morphe DMCA’d him for not complying with the attribution clause of their GPL license.
It’s a whole mess but basically it’s one guy trying to replace dozens of contributors by copying code. He’s never going to sustain it like this, so just use Morphe honestly…
It’s updated daily (sometimes multiple times a day) and it seems like they can’t stop adding new QoL features to the patcher. Their patches work great, I highly recommend it.
Oh ok, thanks for that info. Already installed Morphe, let’s see how it is…
The only time I ever subscribed was when I could pay in Argentina. Came out to like $3.50 per month. Once they patched that loophole, they stopped getting my money.
Yeah, they’re worth maybe $5 a month or family. It’s just a bunch of B-F rate videos and they pay anyone that’s not in the B tier so little than you need to support them on patreon anyway.
If you actually want to support artists, don’t. YouTube Music’s royalty payout is far from stable and transparent, not to mention low to others which is already hard to beat really. Tidal comes closest (from what I found to having functionality and paying artists a more fair rate. Qobuz is there too, Deezer pioneers detecting AI garbage that people think makes them artists now. Spotify got most features ofc but they’re unethical as shit
We get it for $6.5 lol cuz we from poor region
The library is still free, and probably has access to a lot of streaming. If your local one doesn’t, a lot of large libraries will let you sign up for a card even if you don’t live nearby if you just show up in person to sign up. Although some don’t even require that anymore due to COVID precautions.
I live 2 blocks from my local library and I absolutely love it. I take my 2 year old daughter every week. She’ll play in the activity room, we’ll go to a story time and check out 6-7 books for the week. I’ll peruse the video game section, check out a movie if they have something on my to watch list. I haven’t gotten to use their maker space yet but I’m itching to. They also offer streaming, ebooks and audiobooks through Libby and Hoopla. 11/10 would recommend the library.
Don’t forget Kanopy for even more streaming options with your library card!
Neotube for music and revanced for videos are atill working the same.
Revanced works for Google Music too.
Still cost me the same amount it always has.
This is still in the phase where its a really good deal. The reason i’ll never buy it is because I know it will not always be that way.
You’re welcome.
MorpheApp · GitHub https://share.google/JZJdMugUypnDgZVOc
For those who don’t want to be tracked by Google: https://github.com/morpheapp
Y’all try not to freak the fuck out. I pasted a link in a hurry. Calm your tits and put on your tinfoil hat FFS.
Goddamn children.
Morphe
I’m still waiting for morphe to support other apps like instagram and tiktok (which I use for social obligations) before i move from revanced
I genuinely think Morphe has been the worst user experience I have ever had.
I’m probably just unlucky or didn’t set something properly but I would say it’s very very frequent that the playback moves to random parts of the video. Like anytime anyway, the player will suddenly rewind to 10/20/30 mn before in the playback. It has been extremely infuriating. Even up to date and everything, it still does that constantly and has been for months. To the point I select videos in Morphe and then open them in pipepipe or Newpipe to properly watch them.
Again, I’m probably doing something wrong but I truly developed a pretty deep hate for Morphe.
I will again switch back to ReVanved and see if that works better but for me Morphe is extremely unreliable.
The more they charge, the fewer will pay.
I only ever get it when they send me an offer for 3 months for like $10 or something. Otherwise, fuck off Google, I’ll watch the shitty ads.
I prefer ublock origin
Switch to AdNauseam, a fork of uBO that garbles advertisers’ click data by invisibly clicking every ad before blocking (including blocking the resulting load so it doesn’t take any further data toll). Don’t just avoid; retaliate!
Fuck yeah. I have adnauseam on all my machines. Fuck the advertisers
I pretty much only use it for music, and most of the extensions have still gotten me by. At least long enough to rip the song to my hard drive for offline use. Fuck $16 a month. That’s ridiculous. For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit. After a year, not only would I be supporting the artists directly and avoiding paying paying a scummy company, I’d actually have some discographies built up to permanently show for it. They’re just inadvertently trying to support people sailing the high seas. So irritating…
For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit
So why don’t you do that… ?
I actually did just buy a lot of albums in the last 48 hours, once I realized that I could bc my tax return lol. Before that I was pretty broke and wishing I could actually buy some. A light bulb finally went off and I was like oh yeah, I got some money now :p I do like to test drive a lot to see if I really vibe with it also. if it’s something that actually touches me, I usually wind up wanting to have a higher quality version stored locally.
You can also set up a Jellyfin or Plex server and have your own streaming service :)
How would someone, hypothetical, do that ripping part?
I buy the discs from my disc shop then use soulseek to download the discs already ripped.
Other times I simply buy their discs from bandcamp so I get the digital files directly.
Kind of janky but maybe something like this? https://soundclouddl.cc/ or something like this perhaps https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature or you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.
Even easier is https://monochrome.tf/
Not YouTube, Soulseek. Nicotine frontend. Use a VPN.
For Soulseek you should use a VPN that support port forwarding. AirVPN is the one that’s usually recommended.
Gonna catch a lot of “get with the times” but an ad blocker and watching YouTube in browser on my phone - I’ve never seen the value of needing Premium to do adblocking or a whole ass app like Vanced. Maybe sponsorblock for more but like overall, my impression has always been YouTube Premium is a joke of a service that can never offer anything more than adblocking/sponsor block already just does from a browser on my phone.
In addition to removing ads in YouTube, it also gives ad-free YouTube Music (which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio). But honestly, the biggest problem is the app itself shoving shorts down your throat and lacking a bunch of features that third-party clients have. And even if you pay to remove ads from YouTube, you can’t pay to remove ads from the videos themselves. You can only do that with sponsorblock, which YouTube could totally just adopt if they wanted but as is, you have to use third part apps anyway.
(which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio).
I disabled them in settings a couple of years ago and have not had issues since.
This is why they’re trying to lock down everything. Nerfing ad blockers in chrome, semi-banning all unapproved apps in Android.
And don’t get me started on smart TVs. They were broken right out of the gate.
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Personally I prefer SmartTube
That’s what I use, but I thought it only worked on android TVs
On phone, I use revanced
You could be right. I indeed use SmartTube on my TV. It’s my primary device for watching YouTube videos.
Most of the revanced devs left the project (due to some issues with another dev) to found morphe, I suggest switching over to that
There’s a list of extra patches you can add to morphe here: https://old.reddit.com/r/MorpheApp/comments/1ta0bek/how_to_patch_more_apps_with_morphe/
Grayjay too.
