• BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Just use Firefox Mobile to watch YouTube.

    Ad blocking through uBO and can enable playing with locked screen.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      10 hours ago

      I keep trying to convert my friends to using Firefox mobile for this reason. I generally try not to evangelise too much, but I have so many friends who keep complaining about ads when browsing the internet on mobile, and this would literally solve their problem. One friend complained about ads so frequently that they ended up getting irked at me telling them the problem was solvable. Our unhappy compromise was that I would stop telling them to use Firefox and uBO if they stopped complaining about this so much in front of me.

      I respect their choices, but by God, I’m baffled by them. I get that inertia makes it hard to make switches like this, but when you’re spending so much time complaining about how much effort it takes to use the internet on your mobile, why would you not just solve the problem?

    • SaltySalamander@fedia.io
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      10 hours ago

      Running personalDNSFilter (whole phone, non-root adblocker) blocks ads just fine for me in the official unmodified Youtube app.