

The app has been in active development for years and is based on the official YouTube app.

The best-moded app for YouTube mobile phones and tablets is YouTube Vanced. This is not without risk and you should only download modded apps from sources you can trust. The only way to block these ads is unfortunately to use modded apps. This is because the apps make requests directly to YouTube’s ad servers and pull the video ads from there. None of these methods work for YouTube apps.

The unfortunate thing is that as a Zimbabwean there is very little I can do about it besides blocking the ads. Sometimes an advertisement is repeated 10 times in a row. Over the past few months, I have noticed an uptick in the number of ads that YouTube shows and their algorithm can be downright annoying with ads showing in the middle of a three-minute song. We follow dozens of channels as a family including tech channels, cooking channels as well as local drama channels. It’s the most used app on all our devices. In fact, at my house, about 60% of our data goes to YouTube usage.
