NewPipe was failing me today, so I reverted back to the YouTube app. After the first ad (20 seconds), the app gave me a permanent blur.

Maybe blur is just another benefit of cable-stayed bridges

No, cable stayed bridges would never betray me like that.

My friend consider: PipePipe.

Can I port my subscription list from newpipe to pipepioe?
- And settings as well. Yes.
- Yes. PipePipe is a fork of NewPipe.
Pipepipe is great! Works really good so far.

Practical Engineering is also on Nebula (among other some high quality YouTube channels), and tou can get an ad-free yearly sub for around $30. Not giving my views or af-money to Google.

The fact that you knew the channel based on the subtitles is incredible 😂
- To be fair the topic is very specific. There are not that many big channels that talk about engeneering, esspecially bridge engeneering. At least not that I know of.
- How many people talk about cable stray bridges on YouTube
Plus the money actually goes directly to the creators you watch.
If you’re considering Nebula, I’d, personally, go for the lifetime subscription. It’s the better deal after 5 years.
- Better deal after 5 years, if they still exist and honor the lifetime subscription by the time 5 years have passed
- 10 years in my case. I'm grandfathered into a 30$ sub

if you want an app, revanced is good. it has the same UI of the normal YouTube app (minus whatever you don't want, like ads or shorts or news etc, it's one of the most customizable ones I've seen) and besides adblocking has sponsorblock and return dislike and stuff built in (optional ofc) you can still use new pipe for downloads when you press the in-app download button and I like that feature a lot.

my other suggestion is Firefox + ublock origin. can never go wrong with the classics haha

edit: revanced.app is the official site

If on ios, Unwatched is my holy grail

Practical Engineering?

Yup!

You could also simply use firefox

Have you tried changing your DNS to one of these:

194.242.2.4#base.dns.mullvad.net
76.76.2.2#https://freedns.controld.com/p2

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

On iOS, I use the website with Safari with 1blocker to block the ads. Works well.

I think YouTube was having issues. Try using NewPIpe again.

It's not working yet, but Firefox with ad block is
- That's odd since it works for me
  
  Are you using the Newpipe F-droid repo?
I have NewPipe, PipePipe, Tubular (newpipe + sponsorblock) and Grayjay all installed. If one fails, i check the others, and if they all fail, i check /c/newpipe

I had to look around for it, but newpipe po-token version is still working for me. It uses some different method of fetching the video, but with the same interface.

PipePipe.

I keep a copy of one of each of the methods on my phone. Grayjay, new pipe Brave, Firefox+UB and a revanced copy of YouTube.

There really is no way to win, enshittification is winning.