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Thank you! This makes YouTube usable again on my iPhone. Now if only I could get SponsorBlock…

TechBro8615 4y ago
I’m glad I could help! Although really it’s the dev we should thank. It’s been a huge quality of life improvement for me as well.
- 2fast4you 4y ago
  Agreed, left a glowing review! I checked, Sponsor block is available as well!
sen 4y ago
> Now if only I could get SponsorBlock Yeah SponsorBlock is the only reason I still have Firefox installed on my Air. YouTube is horrible without it. I already pay for Premium, I refuse to put up with more ads.
LeoPanthera 4y ago
SponsorBlock is available for iOS. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Safari https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Safari
- stingraycharles 4y ago
  Do these extensions work for just Safari (the browser), or do they get integrated into all webviews, including the actual YouTube app?
  - ajayyy 4y ago
    Safari extensions only work with Safari, but there is a jailbreak tweak and a sideloaded app you can use to modify the official app
    - TechBro8615 4y ago
      Yeah, it’s disappointing that content blockers and Safari extensions are not configurable per-app, in the same way as photos access or whatever else. This seems like an obvious feature, so hopefully the reason for its delay is complexity of implementation; IIRC app developers have basically full access to WebKit in a WebView, so enforcing the use of content blockers would be difficult. But Apple could make implementing content blockers for generic web views a requirement that they check for during review. I say “generic” because there are likely some use cases where the WebView isn’t being used as a general purpose web browser, like it would be in Apollo or Feedly. So it might be infeasible as a hard requirement. On the other hand, Apple wants to incentivize developers to build apps, and they have a history of gatekeeping features from the browser to force certain use cases into the App Store. So hopefully they’re not omitting this setting to encourage app developers to create apps where they can run their “safe ads” without content blockers.
      - ajayyy 4y ago
        On Android, they solved this with "Custom Tabs", which is an API that opens a nicely integrated webview with extra buttons added by the app (like a tweet button) but internally is the default browser. Almost all apps use this now. I have this with enabled with Firefox

I’m glad I could help! Although really it’s the dev we should thank. It’s been a huge quality of life improvement for me as well.

2fast4you 4y ago
Agreed, left a glowing review! I checked, Sponsor block is available as well!

sen 4y ago

> Now if only I could get SponsorBlock Yeah SponsorBlock is the only reason I still have Firefox installed on my Air. YouTube is horrible without it. I already pay for Premium, I refuse to put up with more ads.

LeoPanthera 4y ago

SponsorBlock is available for iOS. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Safari https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Safari

stingraycharles 4y ago
Do these extensions work for just Safari (the browser), or do they get integrated into all webviews, including the actual YouTube app?
- ajayyy 4y ago
  Safari extensions only work with Safari, but there is a jailbreak tweak and a sideloaded app you can use to modify the official app
  - TechBro8615 4y ago
    Yeah, it’s disappointing that content blockers and Safari extensions are not configurable per-app, in the same way as photos access or whatever else. This seems like an obvious feature, so hopefully the reason for its delay is complexity of implementation; IIRC app developers have basically full access to WebKit in a WebView, so enforcing the use of content blockers would be difficult. But Apple could make implementing content blockers for generic web views a requirement that they check for during review. I say “generic” because there are likely some use cases where the WebView isn’t being used as a general purpose web browser, like it would be in Apollo or Feedly. So it might be infeasible as a hard requirement. On the other hand, Apple wants to incentivize developers to build apps, and they have a history of gatekeeping features from the browser to force certain use cases into the App Store. So hopefully they’re not omitting this setting to encourage app developers to create apps where they can run their “safe ads” without content blockers.
    - ajayyy 4y ago
      On Android, they solved this with "Custom Tabs", which is an API that opens a nicely integrated webview with extra buttons added by the app (like a tweet button) but internally is the default browser. Almost all apps use this now. I have this with enabled with Firefox