I’ve used most available services, but discontinued one after another along with promises that a better user experience will be provided with reduced content and removed functionality with the slight price hike. YouTube was my first and last video service I paid for, only Spotify remains on the borderline.
Based on the screenshot I assume that you used youtube premium lite (what ever this was…) on your smartphone. Therefore, here the obligatory recommendation for NewPipe. Quasi Youtube Premium as apk. It has all the features you need:
There is also the fork NewPipe x SponsorBlock (link to repository) which integrates SponsorBlock into the app. (duh…) This will also skip the creator’s ad blocks in the video.
I’d also like to plug ReVanced. You do have to provide your own copy of the YouTube APK (easily downloadable from APKMirror), but it allows you to install multiple patches into the app, including Return YouTube Dislike, SponsorBlock, and other stuff. It allows background play and blocks ads, too. (You can see the list of available patches here.)
The problem I have with ReVanced is that it sometimes doesn’t register videos as watched or doesn’t save the watch progress. It happens pretty randomly too, one week everything works correctly then the other week nothing I watch gets saved
Huh. The only time I had that issue was when my adblocker app was blocking a specific domain that the YouTube app needed unblocked to save watch history. I unblocked the domain, and I don’t think I’ve had that problem since. I had to unblock
s.youtube.com/api/stats/watchtime, though the internet says it’s changed toyoutube.com/api/stats/watchtimein more recent years.There is also Piped + LibreTube.
I wish new pipe had a “save” feature. I like to save videos for watching later or whatnot. I am making do with a playlist called “saved” but still…
I use YouTube Pro and it has this feature.
it does
I didn’t mean a download function. I want to save, as in “watch-later”. Save way a “save” works onn lemmy/reddit.
Just add them to a playlist.
That is what I do. Read my OP.
What is the difference?
Uhm, I just made a playlist called “later”, I can’t tell any difference to a watch later feature tbh.
Ah, sorry, I guess I dont understand the difference between watch later and a playlist. Since you metioned a playlist I assumed you were talking about saving the actual file to watch later.
And for iOS I can recommend uYouPlus (https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus). The cheapest way to sideload it is using AltStore. But there are other services which offer sideloading on device, these don’t require a computer.
Missing too much. I get all that with Revanced and my subs and saves and downloads.
You get downloads and subs with NewPipe, too. But it boils down to preference. And I prefere a open source app to begin with instead of patching something.
On Android just use Brave browser and turn on the setting to allow tabs to play media in the background. Opera does the same thing.
Not sure what iOS options there are.