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also don't use brave or vanilla Firefox
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Don't use brave.
Absolutely do not use Brave. Just use Firefox mobile as well, it has ublock origin, sponsorblock, and background play.
When did iOS get ublock origin and sponsorblock as extensions for FF?
Edit: To all the replies, I'm just pointing out that the guy above me is wrong. Yes, Brave is bad. But FF is not a good replacement for Brave if you want ad blocking on iOS because iOS doesn't support any browser extensions outside of Safari.
Orion Browser supports extensions and seems okay.
I don't believe it did.
Yes, because "Firefox" on iOS is just Safari with a Firefox skin
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It's still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings
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yt-dlp is great for downloading media you've already found (or at least, playlists or creator channels you've already found), but you can't use it for discovering new media. You still need a browser or GUI app like FreeTube or Newpipe for that, and it works better when you're actually signed in with your Google account so that the recommendation algorithm works and it can keep track of what you watched for you.
Don't get me wrong; I would love to limit my interaction with Google to anonymously fetching video URLs. But none of the alternatives sync my watch history between devices or recommend new videos (beyond just new uploads from subscribed channels) to me.
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You can use Orion in iOS instead of Brave, which is shady as hell and owned by a bigot.
UBO recommends firefox.
The DDG browser has a pretty nice YouTube player.
Or just don't use YouTube at all
You can use Invidious too
If you put a dash after the T in the youtube url (ex: yout-ube) then it takes you to a version of the site with no ads. This only works on the browser version as far as I know.
Why do y'all go with the absolute worst options to avoid YT ads?
Use NewPipe on Android. Use FreeTube on PC. Failing all those, use an invidious instance from any web browser that isn't fucking Brave - I recommend inv.nadeko.net.
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For downloading on Android, i'd recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
for android, you could use youtube revanced
it even has an option to replace the youtube text with youtube premium
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Isn't mpv the more sensible option for, you know, watching videos?
You can use yt-dlp to download videos, too. I do it all the time, mostly because my internet is unreliable and slow. yt-dlp even works for Twitch VODs, though it's getting a bit ridiculous when you're downloading an entire 13 hour stream to watch maybe half of it.
Yt-dlp?
yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc.
Its an open source tool to download youtube videos
About every mainstream youtube download program you or your parents have ever used are actually just a wrapper for this.
Bonus: If you want to learn more about coding its not that hard to make a script that automatically downloads the last video from a list of channels that runs on a schedule. Even ai can do it.
Is there like a “tutorial for dummies” for this? I tried to use it once but got nowhere.
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All of these extensions are available on Safari too, if anyone’s wondering. Also Vinegar is an extension that replaces the video player with iOS/MacOS’s far superior native player (and seamless pip/background play)
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