[ProtoAES256]

I can't recommend enough of the spiritual successor to Vanced since the article briefly mentioned that. It's called Revanced. It requires more hoops than usual but I'm sure the intelligent folks here won't have a problem with that. It's on Github. Other results are probably fake.

[earthling8118]

I've had plenty enough of a problem with it. The original required me to install a separate app in order to install it. I've yet to successfully make revanced work. Admittedly I only tried once but the hassle was enough to just use newpipe. It isn't perfect at all and is lacking a lot of what I want but it works. It just works.

[anticrymactic]

It is very difficult and the official docs are notoriously bad.

If your still interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/yhkmze/updated...

[moffkalast]

I wouldn't have a problem with it if it actually worked, it always crashes when patching for me.

NewPipe is another option which works since it's a full client, though it doesn't handle logging in and youtube without an account and personalized recommended is like swimming in a river of garbage.