Tubular for Android of which I thought it uses yt_dlp, still works well.
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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Well, I sure hope this doesn't come to be. I don't wanna use their official website, the 3rd party tools are great! But YouTube has become an essential part of my everyday life…
And yes, I have looked into alternatives. They lack what YouTube got, which is the creators I already like (pretty much all of them exclusive to YouTube). Best I could get is copycats. You might be able to find something similar, but not the same (unless you like tech, I guess. If all you consume is tech, you won't lack options (especially if you don't care for specific creators))
it's just annoying having to constantly update my greasemonkey scripts to try to find the ONE that actually works.
like the ad skipping script I had just stopped working the other day. While it WAS skipping ads google decided that "oh you're skipping ads? cool, we'll just keep throwing them at you endlessly"
So they've FINALLY figured out the add skipping thing and now if you're speeding through/skipping ads they'll just serve them endlessly to you.
IS THIS WHY SEAL ISN'T WORKING OH NOOO
My YouTube addon for Kodi seems to be working. It can be somewhat fragile but they've made a bunch of recent updates.
I'd love to know the stats of how many people are using the official mobile apps vs third party clients. Surely you're gonna break third party at some point that people just give up on YT.
Most people are probably just using the official app without a second thought, or even the official web client on Chrome or Edge, or vanilla FF without an ad blocker or any other protections, whatsoever.
This JS thing still isn't a good sign of things to come should Google crack down even harder.