Use the app Newpipe if you wanna watch Youtube without ads on Android or for more privacy

It's an open source app https://newpipe.net/ and it has a lot of features and doesn't requite a Google account.

It still connects directly to Youtube's servers tho so keep that in mind privacy wise. It's obviously way better than using Youtube's app

Here is how to add Newpipe repository to F-droid so that you can get the latest version as soon as it's available https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/

F-Droid is an open source alternative to Google Play and it only has free open source apps! I really recommend it!

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Newpipe also let's you download audio or the full video, vanced doesnt. Newpipe is also working on soundcloud support! It mostly works, every once in a while it just randomly stops being able to connect to soundcloud (like once a month or less) but the newpipe team is pretty quick about getting out updates to fix it. And you can download audio from soundcloud through it no problem!
I prefer newpipe even though I have newpipe and vanced installed.
- The ability to make playlists and queue everything in the background is the true killer feature of NewPipe
- That is why I'm asking people to give it a try

been using it for about a year and i can confirm, newpipe slaps. watching adds is for nerds.

thanks but i already use yt vanced so please please don't tell me it's actually malware cause i really really like all the features it has
- I don't think it's malware, it's well trusted in the android community. Just make sure you installed the official version (from https://vancedapp.com/). Just remember your data is still being sent to Google.
- I don't know much about Vanced really All I know is that it's a modded version of the Youtube app and that it has nothing to do with privacy oh and most importantly is that it's not open source. I really recommend you check out Newpipe because it has some cool features like downloads and it's FOSS and so on. You can find more about its features here https://newpipe.net/