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.

    • @noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      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.

  • @QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17•1 year ago

    There’s a lot of strange answers here.

    1. AdGuard extensions for Safari successfully block all YouTube ads, although in my experience you have to keep reloading the page.
    2. I also use uYouPlus, but you have to remember to connect it to your computer once a week, which blows.
    • @aux@feddit.nlEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      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.

        • @aux@feddit.nlEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          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.

  • @ANIMATEK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    Pay for premium in Argentina, set a VPN to verify, checks out for me. Family plan is so effing cheap.

      • @Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        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?

            • @neoney@lemmy.neoney.devEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              Well, on iOS to have an app-like experience you either connect to your PC every week to re-sign the app, pay ~$15/yr to sideload without a PC or pay $6/yr to get Turkish YouTube Premium, which also gives you YouTube Music Premium and you can use on all platform. Sounds clearly like an exploit to me.

      • @neoney@lemmy.neoney.devEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        I can share with you a method to buy for Turkey.

        1. Make an account on the „FUPS” app. You will need a Turkish SIM to verify - 5sim.net is a very cheap option
        2. 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
        3. Scan the card’s QR code in the FUPS app. You now can use the card to spend money from your FUPS account
        4. 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.

  • m-p{3}English
    8•1 year ago

    Not many options out there for native apps, but you can use an Invidious or Piped proxy and pin the website as an “app”.

  • @mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    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.)

  • Meowmoth English
    3•1 year ago

    I use an app called Orion, which is a browser, you can add extensions from Firefox and chrome.

    • @feecoomeeq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      And they don’t work. I tried uBlock on my IPad Air 2 and no add blocked. PopUpBlocker Strict was also important for me, but also doesn’t work. DarkReader seemed to work.

      I created a NextDNS account and configured the app, still ads on YouTube in Firefox.

      The only two for me that work are Brave and Vivaldi. As I really don’t like what Brave does I’ll stick with Vivaldi.

      iOS is such an uncomfortable and greedy ecosystem…

      Edit: Just now I created a piped account and installed Yattee and is it the closest you can get on non-jailbroken iOS?

      Here’s the configuration https://www.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/zedv9x/comment/k2q8p0o/

  • @maquise@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I can’t say how, but somehow I turned my iPhone XR into a black box that has no YouTube ads on Chrome.

  • buh [she/her]English
    1•1 year ago

    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