YouTube is fucking unusable on mobile. I couldn't even tell what website I was on and why I had TikTok ads in my face that autoplayed. Closed them and the content I wanted to view was gone and there was a video of a little dog instead. FUCK off

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

firefox with ublock origin if you are on android. or any desktop os for that matter.

bonus: sponsorblock to skip sponsor segments and background video play fix to play videos in the background/with the screen off

[–] ethanolparty@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

I mainly use Revanced, but when an update breaks something this is the way to go. Whenever I accidentally open the official youtube app I feel like I stepped on a dog turd

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Install newpipe

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does that automatically play YouTube videos when opened or something, or what would it do in this situation of being linked to YouTube content?

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes. You can make it the default YouTube player on android, so you click a YouTube link and it opens in the newpipe app.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks. I have newpipe installed, which setting would enable newpipe to open instead of YouTube?

[–] Treevan@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'Open by Default' in app settings though I would have thought once you installed, it would have asked which app player you wanted to set as default. I always select 'Just Once' because sometimes popup player is preferred over video player or background.

Hopefully pictures are self-explanatory.

Note: Tubular is the sponsorblock fork of Newpipe.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Thanks. If I accidentally clicked "always" how can I get that option to pop up again?

Edit; NM figured it out, in newpipe settings under "behavior" "video open option" I just switched to "always ask" so I can see how the different options work as I get familiar and then will choose the one I prefer.

[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Something like Settings > apps> default apps > opening links > newpipe Then select the urls you want to open in newpipe. Also select the YouTube app and don't allow it to open links

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Got it, thanks!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

NewPipe.