• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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

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      6 months ago

      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

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        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

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

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

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

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              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

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              ‘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.

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                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.