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youtube on modern phones sucks
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One word, Revanced.
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...
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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.
Yes, always search it on github and tell people to find it on github if you can't provide a link for them.
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youtube ~~on modern phones~~ sucks
FTFY
You default to 240 because your internet sucks or you need to change the default setting. I get 720 all the time and could go higher if I wanted. I never see 240.
This is a you issue and not an app issue.
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I've been using YouTube Vanced for years, and now , after Vanced got killed. it's a bit tedious to set up on non rooted phones, but even then, it's such a huge upgrade. no ads, let you pick your own quality, SponsorBlock built in, background play, lots of payout control options.
Recanced is even easier to set up imo. Just patch & install
I remember Vanced being simpler, only making you download the patched app, where ReVanced wants you to uninstall your YouTube updates, find the APK of a specific version, then patch it. not exactly hard for most enthusiasts but still out of reach for most. absolutely worth it though!
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I pay for Premium but I still use Revanced just for the sponsorblock feature. It's great!
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Not to forget: the adds are high definition anyway...
This fucking infuriates me whenever i dont have an adblocker available. Since my connection speed is sub par, buffering is frequent unless it's at a low quality. So to watch a video without buffering, i gotta set the video to low quality (240-480p) only for A FUCKING 1080P UNSKIPPABLE AD TO JUST CUT IN AND PLAY PERFECTLY FOR 15 SECONDS before casually dropping me back down to 360p, only after buffering once more when the ad ends before the fucking video finally resumes
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Quite a few NewPipe mentions here ๐. Another option is NewPipe SponsorBlock, which has support for Return Youtube Dislike and of course SponsorBlock
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YouTube ~~on modern phones~~ sucks.
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.
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Use the Firefox nightly build and you can bring your desktop experience to mobile.
Not only can you use sponsorblock but also ublock origin. Plus you can use picture in picture and play the videos with your phone locked by default
Its literal perfect fir my usage
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Use Newpipe or libretube
You could teach a CLASS on how terrible the YouTube mobile app UX is.
My phone always defaults to 4K, it's definitely something up with your phone/the app settings.
On mobile, it usually manages to set itself to my desired resolution, on a modded client, but sometimes youtube just does unexplainable things. I have an addon on desktop that forces playback at a specific res, and even then it would casually decide to play 360p
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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
Also wtf, even with vanced, it makes me subscribe to hit play next? Thats such a basic function.
I just use newpipe on my phone, freetube on linux. I appreciate that you don't need an account to "subscribe" to channels.
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YouTube sucks, period. The best innovation they had recently was copying a Chinese company douyin and making shorts while for years they were pushing long form videos to creators and punishing short form videos ๐ dead brains in YouTube executives
Youtube sucked a lot less before this cancerous tiktok clone format was introduced.
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Doesn't let users block channels.
Search results are filled with algorithm-fed recommendations.
Player lacks basic features and has a trashy UI with lots of bugs.
And they have a monopoly.
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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