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    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I would not use YT either without Smart Tube Next on my Shield TV lol.

      YT premium can fuck off until they ad Sponsorblock… Which they will never do.

      • ninjakitty7@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        More people need to know about Smart Tube. Like sure my desktop computer is totally on ad lockdown but my tv isn’t connected to my computer so i was stuck with normal youtube on my amazon fire stick for the longest time until i had enough and went looking on my own. Never going back. Should work on most android smart tv devices.

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    Revanced is great. I wish it could let me bypass some of the inbuilt limits like not being able to download videos, but that’s a small price to pay for removing like 99 of the ads

  • portside@monyet.cc
    6·
    1 year ago

    Yes, also

    • Newpipe
    • Libretube (another foss frontend similar to newpipe)
    • YTDLnis (for downloading youtube video and music)
    • Revanced YT Music/ Innertune/ ViMusic for Youtube music
  • Olifant@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    I was a vanced migrant to newPipe when the former was cut off. Haven’t tried revanced since newPipe has seemed perfectly servicable for me.

    • protput@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      Do you still have to do the whole export import of your subscriptions thing? Or do you just not use subscriptions? Can it sync playlists across devices?

      I absolutely LOVE smartube next on android TV since it still works with my subscriptions and playlists. Too bad they don’t have a smartphone version.

      • psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Do you still have to do the whole export import of your subscriptions thing? Or do you just not use subscriptions? Can it sync playlists across devices?

        Yup, still need to do export/import. Re syncing: you’d have to use an external syncing mechanism like syncthing or nextcloud and even then you’d need to export manually.

        I don’t think NewPipe will ever get any syncing mechanism itself, it tries to be privacy first and doesn’t support any server side code, they rejected the SponsorBlock patch bc it leakes data to a server as well

        Its a very cool app and enough for me, but some things just will not be possible

  • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I use Clipious, an Android client for Invidious, on my phone. I selfhost my own Indivious instance so this is perfect in that my phone never connects to YouTube directly, and I can save all my subscriptions in one place without a YouTube account.

    On my Android TV I use Smart Tube Next. If I really need to cast, I also have YouTube ReVanced on my phone for just that, but I barely use it.

    As soon as Clipious gets a proper Android TV interface, I’ll be set, as both devices can just connect to Invidious and let it do all the work.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Yes, and Smart Tube Next on my Shield TV.

    I appreciate that tools like New pipe exist, but I need my account and my watch list with me.

  • Bobert@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 year ago

    Yes, absolute game changer. Can’t live without it. Use various videos to go to sleep to at night and the last thing I need is for ads that the original content creator didn’t even ask for that are 5x as loud as the video I have playing.