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Revanced project, smart YouTubeTV and/or Smart YouTubeNext, ublock origin, and xManager for Spotify.
I have an android phone and an android TV so I see no ads. However I have an iPad which I take away and the ads make me sad.
Is there any way to adblock YouTube on an iPad?
Safari has the hyperweb extension that does a pretty good job for me!
Edit: hyperweb does a bunch of stuff, eliminating youtube ads is only a fraction of this extension
You can install Firefox on iOS, and install ublock origin
Edit: apparently not
You cannot
Firefox on iOS is just a reskinned safari, extensions are a no
oh damn, didn't know that. I just knew that Firefox was installable on iOS, and extensions work great on Android, so I'd assume it'd be the same. But you're right, apple locks browsers into using WebKit. That sucks
Piped frontend via the browser
Get an Android tablet lol
I went down this route because I had an iPad 9th gen and I wanted to get more away from Apple for various reasons, ended up getting a Samsung tablet and don't feel much better off at all. Granted, it's an entry level 8" $200 tablet, but the touch screen is much worse (the bezels are so thin it's difficult to hold without touching the sides of the touchscreen), the interface is way worse in my opinion, and while I've adb'd the shit out of most of the crapware that comes on it, installing a custom ROM voids the one year warranty and I know how my luck is, that the damn thing will die a week after I flash it, so it just feels even less private than an iPad.
I actually bought it to watch YouTube and read articles in bed on something that was bigger than my phone but smaller than my current 10.2" Apple iPad, and I find myself just using my phone more anyway because it's so clunky.
Maybe better quality tablets (even the Pixel Tablet) are much better, but I really think the state of tablets on Android is terrible, whereas the experience is fairly polished on the side of Apple (although it took them another year to add features like the new lockscreens to iPadOS). I miss the days of when my Nexus 7 was current, and it worked really awesome for a good price.
Late, but maybe nextdns. I haven't actually tried with YouTube on an iPhone/ipad, but I know they integrate pretty easily on Apple devices. Fairly customizable too with a free tier, just need to make a profile.
Won't block YouTube ads.
Don't forget NewPipe
Careful with NewPipe, lot of Malware infested versions floating around on the internet
You can go to fdroid for a trusted source https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
Hadn't heard of x manager, thank you! Super giddy right now, I've been using modded versions of the apk for years but a few months ago my go-to stopped working and haven't found a viable replacement until now. Really godda give them props I'm super surprised at how easy that was lol
Also I'd used revanced but quit when the original got buggy. With how crappy their ads have gotten now I'm going to give the new version a shot thanks for mentioning that as well