STOP USING YOUTUBE. USE PEER TUBE.
If you are a content creator; especially a new creator, make peertube your default.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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For downloading on Android, i'd recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
What about Grayjay? Haven't seen that mentioned.
It's still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings
What scam? Or do you just mean the crypto stuff in general (which is fine, I'm not saying crypto isn't a scam, just trying to understand you)?
Unfortunately there are still close to 0 other options on iOS for background play, at least it has the benefit of not being chromium on iOS
Sideload https://github.com/dayanch96/YTLite
Sponsorblock, Adblock, background play, skip, etc all integrated
Sideloading on ios is easy now unless your device was ever provisioned for a dev certificate. If that’s the case and it’s still active then just sign it with your own cert. if it’s no longer active you either need a fresh apple id or you need to use one of the kind of sketchy signing services. Otherwise you just use like sideloadly, altstore, side store, etc
Also there is no chromium on ios. All browsers use webkit and are basically just reskinned safari. Some heavily modify this (eg orion can run some Firefox and chrome extensions) though
YSK with termux you can run yt-dlp on your phone
sigh
The Brave browser is based on Chromium. Using it to get away from chrome does very little. Different browser, same engine.
It has less telemetry surely?
If you absolutely have to use a Chromium browser for some reason it's not the worst choice. But they're pretty shady.
It's also got a MAGA guy as the CEO though, and he's a homophobic anti-vaxxer
Yes. Less, but not zero. You're still tied into Google's ecosystem. Brave is basically Chrome with a few privacy settings enabled by default.
FireFox on the other hand is completely independent from Google, and more tweakable.
Just dragndrop videos into mpv
I don't see it here but the top comment on reddit for this post was that:
If you have a VPN with a server in Albania to switch to that because serving Ads during streaming is illegal there. I have yet to test it but sounds legit and no one was nay saying it.
Holy shit it does seem to work, just tried it on my phone with the yt app and I didn't get a preroll ad
MPV too
Any plugin claiming to bring back youtube dislikes usually does it with some off-site database, that can be easily manipulated, as the API for it has been deprecated completely.
For new videos (ones they don't have old scraped data to rely on) they capture the like and dislikes from users who have the extension installed, and extrapolate the amount of dislikes from that ratio and the amount of likes YouTube shows.
Surely that doesn't skew the data in any way.
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Yeah I don't get it.
YouTube Search Fixer is also a must have extension. It removes all the bullshit yt is trying to feed you.
Revanced
Premium is for chumps who enjoy getting bullied by big daddy Google lol
You can use Orion in iOS instead of Brave, which is shady as hell and owned by a bigot.
for android, you could use youtube revanced
it even has an option to replace the youtube text with youtube premium
The main devs have moved to Morphe now and Revanced is mostly just merging in Morphe code in broken ways.
Morphe is seriously user friendly!
Absolutely do not use Brave. Just use Firefox mobile as well, it has ublock origin, sponsorblock, and background play.
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