I use Grayjay and it's been working great for me for almost a year

You want revanced. Get the proper version and you're done

Youtube Vanced: very nice app, you have everything: adblock, PiP, Google account sign in, background play.

Youtube Vanced has been dead for years.

You want Youtube ReVanced.

The downsides are you install YT Vanced from Vanced Manager

This is much easier than people make it out to be. You don't even need root. Just download the specific APK version from APK Mirror (there's a link within ReVanced Manager that opens a list of search results for you), patch the APK via ReVanced Manager's local storage method, then install the patched APK (just use the "Regular" method for installing).

Make sure you uninstall the stock Youtube app (or at least disable it within Android Settings).

there is a lot of fake sites with fake Vanced Manager apk

Or just go straight to their Github page.

In addition, I also get a lot of frozen videos and have to relaunch the app - not sure it it’s adblock problem or anything similar.

I've been using Revanced since back when it was still "Vanced". The only time I ever had that issue, it ended up being nothing more than a single toggle in Settings. I forget which setting it was, it's been a few years since then. Something about spoofing? IDK anymore. I've updated a few versions since then and it's not been an issue.

Does nobody use the subscribe function anymore? Only concerned with trending? You're trusting one of the worst algorithms to show you content? Just use TikTok at that point.

I've been using Grayjay for some time.

FF on Android has improved greatly, I don't find myself switching back to Chrome anymore.

Tubular

Obtanium is pretty sweet BTW App stores be dammed!

• https://obtainium.imranr.dev/

Also available on F-Droid

I've been using PipePipe and it works great.

I "share" the video to the adguard video player I have installed

Brave browser. It's simple and it works. Also don't allow links to open up the Youtube app.

As an added bonus it blocks other stuff on websites too.

I've always followed this guide on the xda forums to patch my own revanced YouTube APK, rather than downloading a prepatched one from somewhere else. Worked well enough for me so far, but I am sure there are plenty of other options to achieve the same thing.