i fucking love that this exact problem was solved until Reddit unsolved it by charging exorbitant API fees and effectively killed 3rd party apps and forced everyone onto their shitty app.

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Use alternatives.

You can also use App Manager to edit receivers, services, etc. But that only gets you this far.

The lack of https://grayjay.app/ being mentioned in this comment section is criminal lol

I find that disabling the youtube app and run youtube.com in Firefox (or whatever fork you prefer, I’m using Fennec) with uBlock Origin active gives the best experience in Android.
edit: For the few times I browse reddit I use https://old.reddit.com/ in Fennec and have used the element picker in uBlock Origin to remove most of the page bloat.

Use the browser for both and use browser extensions to unfuck them

Hit the uninstall button, no need for the apps.

Reddit works fine in a browser, especially with Redlib as a frontend.

Youtube also works great in a browser, use Firefox or Ironfox with uBlock Origin.

The vanilla apps are constantly making bloat connections. (Atleast 8k-10k on adguard app per day)

Those connections are not being made. AdGuard is blocking them and then logging them for your review. That’s it’s job.

The best way to prevent them from even trying to make these connections is to use a 3rd party app. But both companies try to stop you from doing that because they profit off of those connections.