I didn't really like having YouTube be just another tab in my browser on mobile, it seemed too clunky. So until I switched, I didn't want to bother with 3rd par

I didn't really like having YouTube be just another tab in my browser on mobile, it seemed too clunky. So until I switched, I didn't want to bother with 3rd party apps, since the experience a few years ago was horrible (forgot which ones I tried though). Also I had that little bit of respect to support creators by not blocking ads. But when there's two unskippable 15 second ads before a 7 second shitpost video, at some point enough is enough. So while I mostly just switched because of the ads, what really was a huge improvement to me was how every time I tap a YouTube link now (messenger, browser, mail), I get a nice pop-up from NewPipe asking whether I want to play it right away in the app, play it right away but just audio in the background, or enqueue it (if something's already playing). It's a small detail but it's such an improvement over "just interrupt the current video without asking".