Moving from iOS to GrapheneOS, need guidance

What are the best piracy tips/tricks. I host most of my own media, but I want to be able to read paywalled news articles, watch youtube w/o ads am generally into privacy, etc.

What are your best practices?

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For Youtube w/o ads just use Newpipe, an open source, privacy aware, third party app. You'll never need to log into Youtube again. And it's not even piracy, even if Google might think differently 🙂
- Have a look at Grayjay for youtube and other video sites.
- You'll never need to log into Youtube again
  Well, I've used Newpipe for the longest time but depending on your internet connection / CGNAT'ed or, even using a VPN means it won't work unless you do sign in :/
  https://lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/9678087
  
  Cannot confirm, in my usage I have never encountered this. I use Newpipe almost daily and do not have a YT login.
  Occasionally Google has done something (deliberately or coincidentally) to limit third party app access, but that's usually worked around very quickly.
- IMO blocking ads is a form of piracy. You are circumventing there form (ads) of monetization. But yea Newpipe is great I personally use Tubular
  
  Did you enter into a contract saying you must watch ads to use the service? Is ad blocking against ToS? I don't think either are true, and a "click to consent" isn't legally binding. Either way, I will never not block ads as it is important from a privacy and cyber security perspective.

What's the title got to do with the post?
- The apps are different on iOS bc of apple's walled garden. For example, NewPipe (in the other comment) is a music app on iOS and I didn't know about it before. The browser is locked to Safari or skins of safari, so extensions are pretty limited. Graphene gives a lot more options so I'm looking for those RE: piracy.
  
  Ah, thanks for explaining. Guess I'm just old. I do my piracy on a regular computer.
- Context? Graphene related advice?

I made the jump from iOS to GrapheneOS a couple years ago. Definitely one of the best decisions I've ever made.
It does not have Fdroid available by default, so Download and Install the APK.
I recommend the Mull Browser, as it gives you access to about:config settings and you can install a lot of extensions. I do recommend using NoScript extension on Mull and then using GrapheneOS's Vanadium browser when you need JS.
On Mull, install ublock origin and then paste a custom filter into it to bypass paywalls. I like this list. Even though it's not piracy related, I also recommend looking into the Libredirect extension.
For YouTube, I recommend using Tubular. It's a Newpipe fork that supports Sponsorblock.
Enjoy and good luck.

The ultimate in privacy for YouTube is Invidious https://invidious.io/, which fully proxies your videos from YouTube through an Invidious server. Every once in a while YouTube will get the upper hand and figure out how to fingerprint and block the servers, but so far the community has always figured out how to circumvent it. One advantage is that you can feasibly use a VPN with Invidious; without it, you have to keep hopping from VPN server to VPN server until you find one YouTube hasn't already blocked, especially on a large public VPN like ProtonVPN. This applies to NewPipe as well, since NewPipe still tries to talk to YouTube directly as far as I understand. On Android I use Clipious as the app to access the Invidious servers.
- pro-tip: self-host invidious if u want the utmost
  
  That is not ideal, especially if you will be the only one using it. If you are using it alone, YouTube will still be able to profile you, as all the videos will be watched by a single server. It would be just like using YouTube.com with a VPN. If you are self-hosting and a few people will use it, YouTube won't be able to profile everyone, as it will think all the videos are being watched by a single person.

https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager for YouTube (and other App mods), you need to patch the app yourself. (If you are downloading a patched apk you are getting scammed. You have to patch it yourself) https://github.com/mihonapp/mihon for manga / manhwa I use internet archives for paywalls but their might be a better solution. F-droid has a a lot of neat open source app, I guess you know of it since you are picking graphene, but just in case. Firefox supports addons, it's been a great browser (though its UI is a bit rough sometimes) and could be your solution for YouTube with uBlock and the background play addons. I personally don't like graphene launcher, I personally use NovaLauncher (the paid version), their is quite a lot of FOSS ones too.
edit: sorry for the formatting, my phone f it up
- Revanced is questionable. Use Tubular instead.
  
  Why do you think so?
- Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it's baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.
  I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.
  
  Question about browsers: Do you have a preference of Firefox, Fennec or Iceraven?
  Thanks for the tip about Web Archives. I'll put that on for sure. Was considering sideloading Bypass Paywalls Clean and they mentioned Iceraven, which I had never heard of.
  Edit: BPC link goes to a *.ru TLD. Link is also on the BPC wikipedia page. They previously got booted from gitlab and github.
- Modded APKs always have some level of risk. I would personally never use *vanced or anything, I'd stick to Newpipe.
  
  The patch set is open source, so is the application that does the patches. I don't feel like it's worse than downloading most apps. Though you still rely on Google services.

Not graphene specific but nzb360 is a great paid app for managing your arr stack that isn't available on iOS & Well worth the price imo. Obtanium for GitHub apps, shizuku can do some cool stuff that would ordinarily require root, revanced manger for youtube if your still using Google or newpipe from fdroid if not. Use the aurora store to avoid Google play. Seeker is an android based soulseek client on fdroid for music. That's all I can think of for now.

Don't go with fdroid. Go with Obtainium. You can download apps directly from Github and it updates automatically. Smaller attack surface and it's one less hoop to jump through.
- Why smaller attack surface? Bigger attack surface. For an attacker is way easier to hack a single developer and publish a malicious APK on their GitHub (or alternative) rather than hosting malware on the official fdroid repository.
  The first just requires a phishing email (trojanize a random Dev with poor opsec, get his apk signing key and his browser cookies) while the second is way more complex (get full access to fdroid build servers)
- The f-droid team goes through the source code and builds the app themselves before publishing. I think it's better to trust them. Obtanium is great, but only if the app is not on f-droid or f-droid is lagging behind updates.

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