• vxx@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They don’t realise that it just looks like the app and behaves like YouTube premium with background play if you use Firefox or similar on your phone.

    They probably imagine some clunky browsing experience in desktop mode.

    Or they’re personally invested in all those apps that I wouldn’t trust my password to.

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      11 months ago

      same for me. I wouldn’t trust my password to another unofficial app if I could use just my browser for the same experience.

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        11 months ago

        It’s basically only for YouTube these days, since I got my official mailing away from Google, but still.

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          11 months ago

          yeah same for me. Completely moved away from google and only have the account for youtube, and I use that only with either firefox or safari on my mobile devices with an adblocker.

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      11 months ago

      You can’t cast to Chromecast (non-googleTV if that matters) from Firefox mobile, also pull to refresh doesn’t work in browser, and they dont support push notifications for uploads. Revanced works great so I see no reason to switch, and it’s based off of the official YouTube APK so you’re only logging into Google play services, and you get the same native app experience you’re used to with all the addons you’d get from browser extensions built in (adblock, shorts block, sponsorblock, return dislike, background play, etc.)

      I don’t think there’s anything that YT in Firefox mobile can do that revanced can’t, but revanced gives you cast support (through the official cast shim that supports CEC for pause, play, stop using the TV remote unlike doing screen mirroring of your phone where you can’t use your phone for anything else while mirroring) and other niceties like notifications and one tap to newpipe player / download video file through newpipe. It’s only a benefit to use revanced over the mobile web.

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        11 months ago

        With Firefox on mobile I can use my personal uBlock filter list to deshitify the search results. That alone makes it superior to Revanced for me (still use it from time to time, but every time I search for something I feel the urge to puke).