Does anyone know if there is a FOSS YouTube mobile client with ad blocking and google sign in(I have had problems with revanced)
Yes they are, but you’re still using and logging into the google owned platform which isn’t.
Newpipe or libretube are completely independent of logging into youtube to maintain a subscription list for example.
Sign-in? Not really
You can export your subscriptions to new pipe easily enough
Is there anyway I can transfer my watched history too?
Watch history doesn’t even work on the official YouTube app so why even bother exporting it?
What am I missing here? My watch history works properly on the official YouTube app.
Really? I basically never got it to work when I used it and I was even a Premium subscriber. If I ever paused a video I’d often even have to start again from the beginning as it couken remember me even starting the video.
Just checked and it worked fine so
Not FOSS but F.
Firefox + ublock works really good on YouTube
Aren’t both of those FOSS?
I’ve been using ReVanced ever since Vanced got taken down. I love it. It’s got ad blocking, options to skip sponsor sections in videos, background playback, and more. Basically every feature that YouTube would have had if it wasn’t evil.
Doesn’t exist. Closest thing is to use an open source web browser and run YouTube as a PWA… But I think they deleted the PWA because it doesn’t work for me.
The PWA still exists
On a Android browser?
Firefox doesn’t support PWA’s so you’ll have to use something Chromium based, but yes. They have a manifest file so as long as your browser supports it you should be fine.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/manifest
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
LibreTube is probably what you want. There’s no g**gle sign-in in third party yt clients though (vanced only has it bc it patches the official client) so you’ll need to export and import your subscriptions https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
Sign in isn’t Foss but you can use third party clients (none of them support sign in)
Honestly smarttube.app has changed my households life
I used hermit to create a lite app of piped.video. I have transferred all my subs from youtube.
Wait, is hermit open source?