HEhebelehubele·Apr 27, 2026
You can mod the APK and remove those detections using ReVanced Manager
https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
https://gitlab.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/-/blob/main/ext...
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💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android
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11 sourcesRevanced allows you to patch the official Android YouTube apk to enable this feature alongside many others, including a block, Sponsorblock, and dislikes.
https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
Rossmann's Grayjay app offers the same functionality in a separate standalone client. It has a paid pro mode, but is free software. I use this on devices that I haven't signed in with Google.
https://grayjay.app/
In YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsersGreat work!
I was working on something similiar, using ReVanced(1) Framework, which allows you to distribute fuzzy tweaks to regular APKs with their ReVanced Manager(2) which can persist multiple version updates.
They have their own DSL (3), kinda.
My target was Instagram Reels, I did not come that far with JADX in finding the appropriate methods/attributes to overwrite because I kept getting stuck scrolling reels on my Android Emulator.
Novel obfuscation technique by Meta :/
(1) https://github.com/revanced
(2) https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
(3) https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patcher/blob/main/docs/...
In Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and ReelsFor web access, in Firefox I've been using the "SocialFocus" add-on, that allows you to remove certain blocks in "social" websites (for example, blocking Shorts or comments in YT), put a color filter to make it "black and white", or even blocking the whole site. I had to access Facebook a couple times some months ago, and the quantity of trash you can filter with this add-on is astounding. This developer has also a YouTube specific add-on I haven't tested yet, named "UnTrap for YouTube" that has almost 200 different options for blocking very specific stuff there. Their add-ons in [0]
For Android there's an App called Revanced that let's you apply patches on certain commercial apps like YouTube or Twitter modifying their behavior, and for example block shorts. See the patches available for YouTube in [1]. I'm still pending to test it, but
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if you do, go to their official site [2], or even better, to their GitHub releases [3] as it seems like there are a good bunch of scammy sites using their name.
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0: https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/user/17777732/
1: https://revanced.app/patches?pkg=com.google.android.youtube
2: https://revanced.app/
3: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases
On Android you could patch using Revanced, there's a checkbox for shorts in the feed.
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager
In Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmonyJust a small correction: it's not "YouTube" ReVenced, it's just ReVenced. ReVenced is a group dedicated to patching apps, but the group itself doesn't provide any patched apps.
It does provide this app to patch other apps: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager
In NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for AndroidIt's a community-driven collection of patches[0] for popular Android apps, supported by a patching framework which includes patch management software (ReVanced Manager[1]).
The documentation[2] is very sparse right now.
[0] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches
[1] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
[2] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-documentation
In Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?YouTube ReVanced is magic and has better features than Premium.
[0] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
In YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockersI believe they have a manager now, like the vanced mananger. https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
In FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client