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Firefox mobile with ublock, no YouTube app at all. Suck it google.

by collsni 5y ago

Biganon 5y ago
None of the comfort of the native app either, so not at all like Vanced.
0xTJ 5y ago
The mobile YouTube site is one of the worst usability experiences out there.
- j1elo 5y ago
  You need to see the clusterfuck that is Twitter.com mobile site, it's so slow and laggy that it makes YT seem like a perfectly good page.
  - tentacleuno 5y ago
    I really don't understand what they were thinking. They made such a big deal of the site being mobile-friendly, yet it's unbelievably slow and laggy. It's a lot of marketing that quickly falls apart in practice.
    - foepys 5y ago
      It's probably fast on the current gen iPhone and in their local test environment so they called it a day.
      - tentacleuno 5y ago
        It's not even fast on my Pixel 5 though, which is supposed to be quite powerful. It can handle other sites (and PWA's) fine! It's just the Twitter one that bogs everything down. Oh well.
  - Andaith 5y ago
    And now if you scroll down too far on mobile, it does a full screen popup and forces you to log in to continue. Just replace the domain with "nitter.net" any time someone sends you a link to a tweet, and you're good to go.
- betwixthewires 5y ago
  That's why I use an invidious proxy and a redirector extension.
  - bdlowery 5y ago
    The lengths people will go to to get around paying $10 a month for YouTube premium.
    - betwixthewires 5y ago
      It's not much of a length. It's set it and forget it. Way cheaper for me than $10 a month, that's a whole extra banana every month. I shouldn't have to pay a monthly recurring charge to get some company to undo their kneecapping of how my hardware and software (that I own, outright, code and all according to GPL) works just because their business model isn't compatible with me being in control of what's mine. It's no small thing, just brushing off $10 a month is hubris. For half the worlds population that's a third of their income. And for some of us other people, I don't want my money going to google, period. I don't care if it is 10 cents a month, I'm not paying a company to solve a problem they created on purpose in order to charge for the solution.

Firefox mobile with ublock, no YouTube app at all. Suck it google.

Biganon 5y ago

None of the comfort of the native app either, so not at all like Vanced.

0xTJ 5y ago

The mobile YouTube site is one of the worst usability experiences out there.

j1elo 5y ago
You need to see the clusterfuck that is Twitter.com mobile site, it's so slow and laggy that it makes YT seem like a perfectly good page.
- tentacleuno 5y ago
  I really don't understand what they were thinking. They made such a big deal of the site being mobile-friendly, yet it's unbelievably slow and laggy. It's a lot of marketing that quickly falls apart in practice.
  - foepys 5y ago
    It's probably fast on the current gen iPhone and in their local test environment so they called it a day.
    - tentacleuno 5y ago
      It's not even fast on my Pixel 5 though, which is supposed to be quite powerful. It can handle other sites (and PWA's) fine! It's just the Twitter one that bogs everything down. Oh well.
- Andaith 5y ago
  And now if you scroll down too far on mobile, it does a full screen popup and forces you to log in to continue. Just replace the domain with "nitter.net" any time someone sends you a link to a tweet, and you're good to go.
betwixthewires 5y ago
That's why I use an invidious proxy and a redirector extension.
- bdlowery 5y ago
  The lengths people will go to to get around paying $10 a month for YouTube premium.
  - betwixthewires 5y ago
    It's not much of a length. It's set it and forget it. Way cheaper for me than $10 a month, that's a whole extra banana every month. I shouldn't have to pay a monthly recurring charge to get some company to undo their kneecapping of how my hardware and software (that I own, outright, code and all according to GPL) works just because their business model isn't compatible with me being in control of what's mine. It's no small thing, just brushing off $10 a month is hubris. For half the worlds population that's a third of their income. And for some of us other people, I don't want my money going to google, period. I don't care if it is 10 cents a month, I'm not paying a company to solve a problem they created on purpose in order to charge for the solution.