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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is revanced annoying to build? I've been putting it off for that reason since AFAIK there is no manager for it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

https://github dot com/ReVanced/revanced-manager

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's easy enough. You'll need to grab an apk for YouTube so ReVanced Manager can modify and install it. That's about it.

[–] vinyl -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's a better one than revanced, it's called grayjay

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people are calling grayjay a "better revanced" they have pretty different feature sets and solve different problems.

[–] vinyl -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The only different thing about grayjay is the polycentric account instead of having your YouTube account other than that all the features are the same or even better. What is there not to understand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Grayjay does not have sponsorblock. Grayjay does not sync my subscriptions across my other devices. Grayjay will not have YouTube features as they roll out. Etc.

Grayjay is basically newpipe (youtube scraper) + casting + centralized, unmoderated comments + other services.

YouTube Revanced is a patched, debloated version of YouTube itself.

Grayjay does a lot of cool stuff, but they are different tools for different problems. Youtube Revanced allows users to have a better Youtube experience on their phone without losing any functionality. Grayjay is asking users to change a lot about how they watch Youtube.

[–] vinyl 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nvm on building revanced! There is Revanced Manager, a couple clicks now to download and install, no need to use grayjay now.