Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.

  • lunazea@programming.devEnglish
    354·
    1 year ago

    yes, it’s true, especially useful for IOS users, but for Android I recommend YouTube Revanced. you can block ads, there is sponsorblock and many others, such as disabling the “shorts” function

    https://github.com/revanced

      • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Last time I tried Newpipe it wasn’t all that great. Would be fine if you just hit up YouTube for random stuff, but didn’t have any consideration for channels you subscribed to. I’m guessing it’s gotten better?

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Are youtube ads in Firefox on iOS blocked? They are with uBlock on Firefox Android, but iirc Firefox on iOS doesn’t support extensions.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I’m almost positive you’re right and the person you’re responding to is not. All browsers on iOS are skins of safari essentially right now. That’s about to change but only thanks to the EU

        • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          Is that confirmed now? It was actually a major reason why I decided against the iphone when upgrading my phone this year.

          • ~/scaglio@feddit.itEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Firefox on iOS still doesn’t support extensions and yes, is still based on the same engine as the other browsers.

            YT ads are not blocked on Firefox on iOS, I just tried.

            • lunazea@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              oh yeah, I forgot about the whole apple engine. it’s kind of nonsense that all browsers have to use it. Let’s hope this will change when Apple introduces sideloading

        • hyper@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I can recommend Orion Browser. It’s from the people that make Kagi. It has the option to either install chrome or Firefox addons. Syncs across iCloud also.

          https://kagi.com/orion/

      • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        IIRC AdGuard iOS content filter works on safari a while ago to block youtube ads, but that was before youtube began its war against adblockers. Haven’t tested it again yet.

      • poncho@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If thats the case, yeah think that guy is wrong too. I guess they would have to rely on using some kind of frontend like piped through their browser