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Not even speaking about all the ads in the default YouTube app without a subscription.

The app is basically useless in my opinion. It defaults to freaking 240p for every video. My phone is definitively not the problem, also not the Internet connection. Watching in Firefox on the same connection gives me normal expected quality.

This was better on some "feature phones" without touchscreen!!! YouTube app works and playback is in 720p / 1080p

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[-] HaleEndGrad@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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 ๐Ÿ’€ dead brains in YouTube executives

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[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You should take a look at ReVanced, it's like youtube vanced but yk, not banned by google

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've given up YouTube almost entirely for PeerTube at this point. If I wasn't to watch a video, I use the *built in grabber and it grabs the video. Then, I can always refer back to PT instead of YT.

[-] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Try using it on firefox with ublock installed, works great.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 2 points 1 year ago

Go with Invidious. inv.tux.pizza works for me when I'm on a browser. (I swear I'm not affiliated with them ๐Ÿ˜….) On my desktop and laptop, I use FreeTube because it allows me to track my watch history and subscriptions locally, and it has Sponsorblock and DeArrow optionally integrated. Plus, it's just nice to separate YouTube, which I often watch like TV, from active browsing tasks. On mobile I typically just use Invidious in Firefox.

[-] railsdev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

What else is new?

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox on Android with U Block Origin. Can watch in 720p and even listen to audio while in another tab. Stop using apps folks!

[-] Fungah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't really consume s lot of visual media these days. But PBS spacetime is tits.

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