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.

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I’m expecting downvotes here but this is one of the reasons I started using Brave. One of the few things I could get to block YouTube ads on a non-jailbroken iPhone.

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CrybtoBro Spam app. I’d rather go with Safari.
But since I use Firefox I am spared from Chromium and the crypto ad stuff.

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Well I feel that any cryptobro stuff was entirely optional and that Brave is dedicated to their users privacy.

https://brave.com/faq/#concerns

However I still feel Firefox is the right choice, it’s just not a one that I’ve been able to fully commit to yet.

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Yeah, they’re so dedicated to user privacy that they redirected crypto URLs to their own affiliate link to profit off of.

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For iOS safari, I can’t recommend vinegar enough. It replaces the YouTube player with the default html 5 player. So you get all the built in iOS features and ad blocking. There’s also the sponsor block app which works in conjunction with vinegar.

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Yes.

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and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well

AdBlock was on mobile for years. One of the few add-ons that worked.

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I’ve used almost all the addons I have on desktop for years with an extension collection and FF nightly.

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I love Firefox, but if you have a non-rooted phone, DuckDuckGo is better.

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Why?

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DDG has a browser, and it’s based on Chromium which is from Google, so this is a shit take. Do not use Chromium based browsers if you value privacy or ad blocking features.

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Firefox does not provide any more feautures if your phone is rooted as I know.

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Mull

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I agree, and here is a good resource explaining:

https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

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what?

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Its a webview browser which is just a chrome system widget.

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what extra functionality do you get on firefox with root compared to without? lol

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ReVanced? Adguard has been able to block ads both from the yotube app and youtube in a browser for years, too. Also, any chrome based browser can do it with extensions for, also bene a thing for years. I’ve used opera, kiwi, and bromite for that.

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Adguard is in the category of questionable firewalls. I used it for a while and it was just too kludgey for me when there’s not many apps with ads that I use anymore. Android has free software for pretty much everything at this point.

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