Not even speaking about all the ads in the default YouTube app without a subscription.

The app is basically useless in my opinion. It defaults to freaking 240p for every video. My phone is definitively not the problem, also not the Internet connection. Watching in Firefox on the same connection gives me normal expected quality.

This was better on some “feature phones” without touchscreen!!! YouTube app works and playback is in 720p / 1080p

  • SonnyVabitch
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    371 year ago

    Several words: mobile Firefox, ad block, disable youtube app, disable known links to youtube.

    • @oldGregg@lemm.ee
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      671 year ago

      Several more words:

      Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake!

      • @Why9@lemmy.world
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        41 year ago

        Thank you.

        It’s always so refreshing to see someone do the thing you were expecting would happen!

        I’m wondering how to get “shiny teeth and me” into a comment somewhere…

      • SonnyVabitch
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        51 year ago

        Nothing, I this person I know of just had FF and adblock set up already for other reasons, so all I they had to do was stop the youtube app hijacking its own links.

          • 👁️👄👁️
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            41 year ago

            It works with the addon enabled, just like desktop firefox. But right now it’s a bitch to manually install addons on the android version, so it’s a lot of work. I just use newpipe-sponserblock. Or also LibreTube is also nice while also having sponserblock built in.

              • @PainInTheAES@lemmy.world
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                11 year ago

                To install desktop add-ons you need to use nightly and create an add-on collection to sync. But sponsor block might have a mobile version that you can install from the settings section of the normal app.

      • @chepox@sopuli.xyz
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        11 year ago

        No need for side loading apps. So works on all phones. Phones that are remotely admin have this feature off.

        • @LukeMedia@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Firefox can’t load plugins on iPhones anyway. If you’re on Android, and it’s a personal device, ReVanced is a better experience.