Alternatives - kitadai31/revanced-patches-android6-7 GitHub Wiki

Alternative clients

Alternative apps supports Android 5.0+:

Very suspicious NewPipe mods (Violating GPL License) - use at your own risks!:

  • Any PureTuber Mod (Official Pure Tuber is full of ads, so PureTuber mods are better.)
  • GreenTuber
  • Vanced Tube
  • Other fake "Vanced" apps

Those apps supports Google Account logging in unlike original NewPipe and its forks. You'll also get an experience similar to the official YouTube app.

I am not advocating the use of such apps, which go against the spirit of open source. But it cannot be denied that they can be useful on older Android devices.

Using m.youtube.com website

Firefox or Kiwi + extensions

Plus: uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock + Return YouTube Dislike + Video Background Play Fix + other useful extensions (such as Control Panel for YouTube, Enhancer for YouTube)
With these extensions, you can get ReVanced experiences on web YouTube.

(For Android 7.x, the final Kiwi 137 is available. But Android 6.0 can use up to Kiwi 107. I don't know if uBO works on Chromium 107.)

If your device's SoC doesn't support VP9 hardware decoding, also install "enhanced-h264ify" extension.
YouTube web uses VP9 by default, it causes very laggy playback for non-supported devices.
Disabling VP9 and using H.264 improves performance for such old devices.
See "Stats for nerds" before install the extension.

If your device's GPU is poor, turning off CSS backdrop-filter improves scrolling performance significantly, especially on Firefox.

On Firefox, you can disable backdrop-filter in about:config.

  1. Type chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml into the address bar.
  2. Note: You must type it exactly; copy-pasting might remove the chrome:// prefix.
  3. Turn layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled disable.

On Chromium-based browsers, you have to use user CSS extensions such as Stylus.

* { backdrop-filter: none !important; }

WebView apps

A wrapper app for the m.youtube.com with ad blocking additional features.

AdGuard

  • Any browsers + AdGuard app (free) (HTTPS filtering enabled) (Only for Android 6.0 and 7.1)

AdGuard can't update filters on Android 7.0 or below.
Android 6.0 can update filters by installing Let's Encrypt CA certificate, but Android 7.0 has no way to update filters because starting Android 7.0, most apps don't trust user certificates.
so this method is not available on Android 7.0 unless you have root permission.

The last version of AdGuard for old Android: A5-6 is 3.6.11, A7-8 is 4.7.2