With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.
While it lasts, what is a good adfree foss yt player on ios?
I don’t think there are any that don’t require jailbreak/sideloading, but you can always use the browser versions like Invidious or Piped!
Yattee
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629
https://github.com/yattee/yattee
This. I’m currently hosting Invidious and accessing it with Yattee on my iOS devices. It’s been amazing how clean of an experience I’ve had.
I just “installed” the piped website, works fine.
I use uYou+ through AltStore
Yattee is a foss youtube app for iOS. It has sponsorblock builtin too.