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
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yeah I’m loving newpipe no fuss
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Yeah, I switched to Invidious a long time ago. If you want an app, I’d also recommend NewPipe (for Android), and either Yattee (for iOS) or Piped (as a PWA).
Even when I select “higher quality” on WiFi, it still defaults to 480p.
And then I have to manually select 1080 every time.
So this is not some corner case problem for me… I honestly do not care, rarely watch on the phone. Maybe because it depresses me that technology is moving backwards in some sense 😐
Also wtf, even with vanced, it makes me subscribe to hit play next? Thats such a basic function.
One word, Revanced.
extended revanced
I searched for Revanced and the top 3 results were malware, with the 4th being the real website lol. Thank God for uBlock saving my ass.
https://revanced.app is the real one.
Yes, always search it on github and tell people to find it on github if you can’t provide a link for them.
They should really just host their own fdroid repo with binaries of pre-patched apps at their default enabled patches.
They do not distribute any binaries to avoid copyright issues I believe. There are some telegram channels doing what you described, but I wouldn’t trust it enough to use it.
OBS was victim to this a while back. it was almost indistinguishable from the real sites so pretty dangerous
Mostly a windows issue there though, Linux and OSX have app stores to install that. Revanced is able to, and just doesn’t for some reason. It’s a massive security issue for many reasons, and this is a prime example of it. Especially given the app needs a ton of access on your device to operate. It’s mind-blowing to me that people recommend this at all, and why there’s no repo for it.
Revanced can’t exist as a standalone app to be installed like from a store. Google would nuke it. It has to be a patcher. Original Vanced was a standalone app and that is what allowed Google to nuke it from orbit. It’s arguable that Google ignored Vanced until the developers got money grubby and tried making NFTs, but the method they used for takedown was DMCA since it was their app just modified.
This is the same thing as ROM hacks, randomizers, etc and why they include a place to upload your own copy of the ROM rather than providing their own. Reverse engineering and modifying are legal, distributing copyright source, binaries, or blobs without the rightsholder permissions is not.
They also do have a repo for it, as well as the offshoot apps like Revanced manager, other app patches, etc. The fact it’s not at the top of Google results is a Google-and-SEO problem, not a Revanced problem.
If you want a one and done app install then something like Newpipe is what you want, which is built completely on its own. Revanced is explicitly not that, it’s the stock app hacked up. IMHO, Revanced is a nicer experience, but they are two very different experiences and approaches.
Several words: mobile Firefox, ad block, disable youtube app, disable known links to youtube.
Several more words:
Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake!
We didn’t start the fire!
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…
And what would be the benefit over Revanced?
No need for side loading apps. So works on all phones. Phones that are remotely admin have this feature off.
Firefox can’t load plugins on iPhones anyway. If you’re on Android, and it’s a personal device, ReVanced is a better experience.
Nothing,
Ithis person I know of just had FF and adblock set up already for other reasons, so allIthey had to do was stop the youtube app hijacking its own links.No sponsor block in ff though?
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.
how do you install addons on firefox android? I use iceraven now.
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.
TIL I’ll have to check on those other clients too, thanks p
Works fine for me.
And use the patch that saves the resolution you select and it then forces it
Which patch is that? I would love to have that in my FF.
Ah, it’s for revanced
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Go with Invidious. inv.tux.pizza works for me when I’m on a browser. (I swear I’m not affiliated with them 😅.) On my desktop and laptop, I use FreeTube because it allows me to track my watch history and subscriptions locally, and it has Sponsorblock and DeArrow optionally integrated. Plus, it’s just nice to separate YouTube, which I often watch like TV, from active browsing tasks. On mobile I typically just use Invidious in Firefox.
revanced is the only thing I can use. it patches the legacy quality menu back in and a bunch of things that make it usable again
Use Newpipe or libretube
Yeah, Newpipe is a lot better option.
Can you link? This is what I’m looking at
Its not on the play store. Get it from apkmirror.com, or fdroid as others are mentioning
Get it from F-Droid, I’m personally using Newpipe with Sponsorblock and it’s great.
Does not work will use the same 240p shit quality.
Quite a few NewPipe mentions here 😁. Another option is NewPipe SponsorBlock, which has support for Return Youtube Dislike and of course SponsorBlock
SmartTube beta is meant for Android TV devices, but it just works fine on phones too, and it also has SponsorBlock AND account login.
they just added touch and mouse control
I suspected they had changed something recently; the UI was working better
I’ve given up YouTube almost entirely for PeerTube at this point. If I wasn’t to watch a video, I use the *built in grabber and it grabs the video. Then, I can always refer back to PT instead of YT.
I use Vivaldi Mobile Browser that makes it a lot more usable.
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