Check out Tubular, a fork of Newpipe, which includes Sponsorblock and ReturnYoutubeDislike

Personally I find it a lifesaver for watching YouTube videos on mobile these days

Not if you “fork” it locally by doing git clone --mirror and doing git push newOrigin --mirror 😉

Try Blokada 5. It sets up a local vpn inside your phone and blocks all the ads and trackers. The application is free and open source. Don’t download it from the play store as it downloads version 6, which requires a subscription and does cloud stuff (version 5 instead works locally)

https://github.com/blokadaorg/five-android

Enjoy

Newpipe doesn’t use youtube official API. It does webpage parsing afaik