SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube

For anyone using an Android phone, the ReVanced[1] patches for the YouTube app (formerly just YouTube Vanced) applies both an adblock and SponsorBlock, on top of various other convenience features. You'll need to provide your own YouTube APK file to patch.

I'll never go back to using non-Vanced YouTube ever again.

Advertisements are a blight on this world. They are the reason for marketing and sales budgets being quadruple that of engineering and UI/UX budgets, the whole 'form before function' thing, and enshittification in general.

[1]: https://revanced.app/patches?pkg=com.google.android.youtube

Came here to say the same thing. Revanced YT patches for Android are extremely sweet. And yes, even better features (for viewers) than YT Premium.

The only thing that moved me on from using (Re)Vanced was setting up my own Invidious instance, and using the Clipious app (F-Droid store) to access it.

Clipious, by default, connects to public instances of Invidious, so you can try it out without having to setup your own instance.

ReVanced remains my backup option, however.

Has the installation gotten easier? Last time I checked I needed to find a speccific version apk of youtube app itself that revanced patcher patches before installing. Too many steps to make way too often.

> Too many steps to make way too often.

This is not how I feel.

The last time I patched my app was several months ago, and it's still running fine. I do have to patch about twice a year and it's a five-minute affair of getting the correct version, going to APKMirror and downloading the corresponding version of YouTube, and patching it with the latest app.

Unless you specifically care about app experience, you can also use Sponsorblock, ublock and many other extensions in plain Firefox on Android

God forbid you have to expend a bit of effort every six months to get free entertainment and skip ads.