Youtube search page has so many shorts before the actual videos...
Youtube search page has so many shorts before the actual videos...
Mental Outlaw has a video about post YouTube Vanced. Basically: Kiwi browser + sponsor block + ublock + a violent monkey script to allow audio playback when your screen is off.
And honestly, it’s been working great for over a year. I’d rate the overall experience as good if not actually better than Vanced tbh.
As has already been said, it’s likely just an update issue - depending on your root status and whatnot, auto-updates unfortunately aren’t much of a thing these days as far as I can tell.
Still, I rarely need to update, and only do so when something breaks (like when YouTube started killing playback when it detects adblocking recently).
Just use use libretube, newpipe, clipious or any other third party app.
For the web there is invidious and piped