Vanced: youtube adblocker for android

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  • NewPipe

    A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

    Vanced is pretty good. It seems like it's just the official YouTube app but with premium for free.

    Newpipe is another ad-free YouTube app. https://newpipe.net/

    It's FOSS and doesn't use your Google account, or any of the YouTube APIs. You can still manage subscriptions but you have to import them manually.

  • SkyTube

    Copylefted libre / open source YouTube player for Android

    If people want to just see youtube videos without needing to see any commentsor recommendations while removing adsd, there is SkyTube [1]. Its FOSS, minimal and very easy to use.

    [1] https://github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • vanced-website-v2

    Source Code of the Vanced Website

  • SponsorBlock

    Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

  • SmartTube

    SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

  • AppSync

    Unified AppSync dynamic library for iOS 5 and above.

  • NewPipe

    Discontinued A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality. (by polymorphicshade)

    There's also this fork that includes sponsorblock: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • auto-youtube-subscription-playlist-2

    Script automatically adds videos to playlists from Youtube channels and/or subscriptions (Youtube Collections alternative).

    https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist...

    I use google spread sheet script to manage a bunch subscriptions into different private playlists accessible via sharelinks in Newpipe. Allows me to keep things in sync with youtube account on other devices.

  • auto-youtube-subscription-playlist

    Script automatically compiles a playlist out of youtube subscription notifications in a gmail label (Youtube Collections alternative)

    https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist...

    I use google spread sheet script to manage a bunch subscriptions into different private playlists accessible via sharelinks in Newpipe. Allows me to keep things in sync with youtube account on other devices.

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