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The youtube app has its own frontend for video playback.

• samwillis 8y ago
  True, but not within safari.
  • snaky 8y ago
    Why anybody would play YouTube videos in Safari on iOS? Don't tell me iOS don't open YouTube links in YouTube app automatically?
    • not_kurt_godel 8y ago
      I use Brave to watch videos, never the Youtube app, which I don't have installed. It at least gives the illusion that I have control over the requests Youtube is making from my phone. God only knows how much sneaky data collection they do with the app...
    • mikewhy 8y ago
      Used to be if you used Safari you can play video in the background. On iPad it also meant you can get picture-in-picture. Not sure if those "tricks" still work.
      • Wowfunhappy 8y ago
        Can confirm this doesn't work anymore, and hasn't for a while actually. (There is, however, a wonderful Jailbreak tweak that restores the functionality.)
      • WeAreGoingIn 8y ago
        Try Opera Mini on IOS.
    • Wowfunhappy 8y ago
      Why should I install a separate app just for Youtube when the website works fine?
      • baddox 8y ago
        I thought the premise of this subthread was that the website doesn't work fine.
    • larkeith 8y ago
      Permissions requested on Android: Camera, microphone, contacts, storage. Because YouTube has entirely ethical and noninvasive reasons for needing access to contact data and unprompted file storage.
      • snaky 8y ago
        For Android there is F-Droid. > Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
        • JetSpiegel 8y ago
          It even allows to stream audio only while turning the screen off.
      • thecatspaw 8y ago
        Can you record videos with the youtube app? that would explain Camera and microphone. Contacts is probably for sharing videos and storage might be cache?
    • basch 8y ago
      I find it infuriating when I am on google, click a link and the yelp app just opens without any sort of warning. Youtube isnt far behind. If i already had something open in one of those apps, and was coming back to it, my state is cleared.
      • philsnow 8y ago
        That doesn't happen if you don't have the yelp app installed. Don't reward their shitty dark patterns[0] by installing their app. They have a site that is perfectly amenable to being consumed in a web browser on your phone. They're _already done the work_ to make it work well on your phone, but then they kneecapped it and turned the hard work of all those engineers and designers into lead-gen for their app so they can get your location data. m.yelp.com: This page will open in another application. me: tHiS PAgE wiLl OPEn iN aNOtheR ApPliCaTIon. [0] You can only see the first few pictures, you can only read the first fifty words of each review, and every attempt to go beyond that[1] is met with a redirect to the App Store app [1] no, they don't make it clear that clicking that "read more" link is going to send you to another app.
        • basch 8y ago
          to me its more the operating system and or browser fault. we have PROTOCOL already. if i want it to open in yelp it should either start the link with yelp:// or food:// and my os should default to my default food app. if its https:// https:// keep it in my damn browser. google should let me set link rewrite settings per site or type, if i say for example WANT https://youtube https://youtube to be rewritten on the fly as youtube://filename
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  • alliecat 8y ago
    Which is one reason, among many, for YouTube to build a native application.
    • mcintyre1994 8y ago
      They already have one. I think they had one on the very first iPhone even.
      • alliecat 8y ago
        iPhone owner since the very first iPhone - I know ;)