You can use Firefox with Youblock Original to block ads in the browser, but I don't know of any app, sorry
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Thanks I'll look into it
Thanks for the suggestion, I've tried it but it still won't play
Go to sources, click the youtube plugin, check allow age restricted content.
I don't think that there's a technical route around it anymore. yt-dlp used to be able to do it, but isn't any more. A service doing it would have to either use some "proxy" account, which I'm sure YouTube would shut down in short order due to it having insane load, or mirror content elsewhere, which would infringe on copyright.
Probably the closest thing to equivalent functionality that could be made would be, for content creators who don't mind having their content on other services
and people who make a living from YouTube payments aren't going to do this
getting them to upload that content to another service, and then have some database mapping login-required content on YouTube to that content elsewhere.
I'll have a look, thanks!
I've had a look and while it does look like a powerful set of add ons, I'm not sure it's what I'm after - the patches are for YouTube, not NewPipe. So I'd have to watch the video through YT, which is what I'm trying to avoid
Im not sure entirely what u mean or if this will be the solution to your question
I have the revanced manager app from the site that i used to download the revanced youtube app (and keep it updated)
I disable the default youtube app
Then use revanced instead of newpipe
even the userscript i had for this, which used a fallback proxy if needed, hasn't worked in awhile.
if you don't mind the login requirement and the target video isn't drm-'protected', you might be able to pass the login credentials or browser cookies--whatever's needed, to yt-dlp and download the video for later viewing in the media player of your choosing.