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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One word, Revanced.
Several words: mobile Firefox, ad block, disable youtube app, disable known links to youtube.
Several more words:
Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake!
We didn’t start the fire!
Thank you.
It’s always so refreshing to see someone do the thing you were expecting would happen!
I’m wondering how to get “shiny teeth and me” into a comment somewhere…
And what would be the benefit over Revanced?
Nothing,
Ithis person I know of just had FF and adblock set up already for other reasons, so allIthey had to do was stop the youtube app hijacking its own links.No sponsor block in ff though?
Works fine for me.
It works with the addon enabled, just like desktop firefox. But right now it’s a bitch to manually install addons on the android version, so it’s a lot of work. I just use newpipe-sponserblock. Or also LibreTube is also nice while also having sponserblock built in.
TIL I’ll have to check on those other clients too, thanks p
No need for side loading apps. So works on all phones. Phones that are remotely admin have this feature off.
Firefox can’t load plugins on iPhones anyway. If you’re on Android, and it’s a personal device, ReVanced is a better experience.
I searched for Revanced and the top 3 results were malware, with the 4th being the real website lol. Thank God for uBlock saving my ass.
https://revanced.app is the real one.
OBS was victim to this a while back. it was almost indistinguishable from the real sites so pretty dangerous
Mostly a windows issue there though, Linux and OSX have app stores to install that. Revanced is able to, and just doesn’t for some reason. It’s a massive security issue for many reasons, and this is a prime example of it. Especially given the app needs a ton of access on your device to operate. It’s mind-blowing to me that people recommend this at all, and why there’s no repo for it.
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Now this sounds like a good solution. F-Droid store is serious enough about security so I don’t have to worry about applications there.
You default to 240 because your internet sucks or you need to change the default setting. I get 720 all the time and could go higher if I wanted. I never see 240.
This is a you issue and not an app issue.
Tbf my official YouTube also defaults to some shitty quality even on wifi, on my desktop and tv it always goes to 4k. I’ve also configured it to high picture quality or whatever.
If you go to settings>advanced>you can straight up choose the quality video will play at.
My settings are set to the highest quality.
I’m using revamped now anyway, and it works flawlessly.
There are so many of these threads that just boil down to “I am the problem I just can’t admit it”
But this is a real issue. Video playback on my phone usually starts at 480p but on my laptop it starts at 1080p. Both are connected to the same network.
And how many pixels wide is your phone in the direction you watch videos?
Its a full HD screen same as my laptop (similar number of pixels but much higher pixel density for the phone)
Not to forget: the adds are high definition anyway…
This fucking infuriates me whenever i dont have an adblocker available. Since my connection speed is sub par, buffering is frequent unless it’s at a low quality. So to watch a video without buffering, i gotta set the video to low quality (240-480p) only for A FUCKING 1080P UNSKIPPABLE AD TO JUST CUT IN AND PLAY PERFECTLY FOR 15 SECONDS before casually dropping me back down to 360p, only after buffering once more when the ad ends before the fucking video finally resumes
If you’re on android I highly recommend ReVanced
I just use Ublock origin in firefox when im on android.
I would not be able to use YouTube without premium these days since there are so many ads . I find on my phone it usually plays 720 if I’m connected to wifi , there is an option in the settings to pick what quality it will play for wifi or data
YouTube
on modern phonessucks.Even when I select “higher quality” on WiFi, it still defaults to 480p.
And then I have to manually select 1080 every time.
So this is not some corner case problem for me… I honestly do not care, rarely watch on the phone. Maybe because it depresses me that technology is moving backwards in some sense 😐
Yeah, I switched to Invidious a long time ago. If you want an app, I’d also recommend NewPipe (for Android), and either Yattee (for iOS) or Piped (as a PWA).
That’s why I only use Newpipe
Does not work will use the same 240p shit quality.
revanced is the only thing I can use. it patches the legacy quality menu back in and a bunch of things that make it usable again
My phone always defaults to 4K, it’s definitely something up with your phone/the app settings.
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YouTube will randomly enable closed captions for me, even though I literally never have them on.
You could teach a CLASS on how terrible the YouTube mobile app UX is.
I installed both Vinegar and Baking Soda and have never looked back. And FWIW, all of Google is rotten.
What is vinegar and baking soda?
Safari extensions.
Both are excellent household cleaners, but despite common belief, they aren’t good cleaners when mixed together.
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.
I just use newpipe on my phone, freetube on linux. I appreciate that you don’t need an account to “subscribe” to channels.
