Anybody know of a good apk that blocks ads while watching YouTube on my phone app ?
Highly recommended. Fdroid is one way to install, you can also download an .apk from the new pipe website.
I don't have a good ad blocker for you other than AdAway. It won't block YouTube ads on an unrooted phone, but it can on a rooted one. You can try in-browser mobile YouTube with Firefox + uBlock, but I would suggest switching away from the native YouTube app and getting NewPipe with SponsorBlock from F-Droid.
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
EDIT: Corrected link to current NewPipe.
You're correct. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Fixed the link.
Highly recommended. You can even export your subscriptions from YouTube and import them into NewPipe. But that's for another thread. I use NewPipe almost exclusively now, having YouTube links pull up in NewPipe. No ads. And with SponsorBlock, you can skip the in-video ads (with community-driven data). Not to mention, you can also stream music from Bandcamp, and it supports PeerTube, etc, as well.
I use AdAway in a non-rooted device and it works fine. You need to use it with a local vpn mode to function.
Same. Doesn't work for youtube ads though as they're served from the same place as the video content. AFAIK browser based blocking is the only way to do it.
Aside from Revanced, you can't really block ads on the Youtube app. You can use your browser or Newpipe/Libretube as an alternative, but that's it.
Alternatively, you can use the official YouTube site with Mull browser or Firefox with the ublock origin extension installed. But NewPipe offers a better experience since you can download videos etc.
Newpipe can also continue to play videoes with the screen turned off. The interface is really nice.
Firefox + uBlock is my suggestion too, it makes mobile browsing bearable.
i suggest to use a open source front end (such as newpipe). and use adayaw (a hosts based ad blocker) for the generic ads
For YouTube I think the only options are revanced/ revanced extended or Firefox Nightly with a whole bunch of extensions.
