An adblocker for Native Android apps. Cover ads, mute audio during videos and skip when possible.
Currently, it only handles the Youtube app, but the goal is to provide a system similar to web browser adblockers to block ads from any app.
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uBlock Origin Downside: it only works within the web browsers, not the native apps
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Third party clones (NewPipe for Youtube) Downside: it requires extreme development efforts. It usually doesn't implement the features of logged in users.
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APK patching (Revanced) Downside: it requires manual updating and repatching all the time. High user effort.
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Ad CoverMuteSkip. Downside: it doesn't actually remove ads, but just covers the ads with an overlay and auto-mute/auto-skip video ads.
The goal of this project is to provide a system that decreases the toxicity of ads on all native Android apps with minimum user effort.
Check this video demo That demo shows Youtube sound auto-muting and moving the floating player above a covered ad.
Download the latest APK from the release-apk folder (or recompile it yourself).
The app uses the Accessibility Service feature from Android to receive screen change events and generate virtual clicks. You'll need to enable/disable the service manually, once activated it'll run all the time independantly of the graphical app.
The app's frontpage explains in more details how to do it.
1.1.3.0: Fix the XPath after a Youtube UI change Add a setting to disable the auto-click
1.1.2.2: First version