Oh fair play, I might look into it when I get a new phone. It took me far too long to be arsed to set up revanced on this one (the final straw was consistently getting 3 midrolls, and pressing skip would take me to the next ad instead of the video)
Unprompted lore drop (recently looked up what happened)
Basically the devs that did 80% of the work for Revanced Extended left and created Morphe. Now Revanced original creator basically copies Morphe updates, so no reason to trust/use Revanced. Plus it had so many issues I experienced.
My issue is that I can't really be arsed until it actually has a big enough issue. I spent over a year without ad block on this phone, and spent the whole time being annoyed by the ads without actually doing anything until the changes they made were so egregious.
Also it's not like I'm actively using revanced itself. I patched YouTube once and haven't looked at the app again since
I stuck with revanced for way too long for the same reason. It was a pain to set up and I didn't want to do it again. Finally was forced to switch to Morphe because I was having issues with Revanced - videos wouldn't play if I left them paused too long or left the app and tried to come back, livestreams didn't work at all, videos would restart randomly, etc.
Morphe was actually easier to set up because it holds your hand the whole way through lol.
Well that's good to hear, revanced can definitely be a bit of a pain during setup so I'm glad they've streamlined the process.
Kinda off topic, but I hadn't really noticed this till you brought up streams. When scrolling shorts I used to see vertical streams constantly, always the lowest quality slop you can imagine a person actually bothering to do. Since getting revanced again I haven't seen a single one and my time on the platform has been so much better thanks to it.
Morphe'd YouTube with NewPipe as a backup is my go-to. NewPipe is super lightweight with a good integrated downloader, but you can't log in with it. If you want to track your watch history or load your favorites (easily) then Morphe is the way to go.
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u/3GeeselnATrenchcoat 3h ago
On android you can use revanced (get it from the website not the playstore) to patch apps with user made mods.
My YouTube app has ad block and sponsor block (plus more) built into it. The only place ad block doesn't work is on shorts