It’s still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings
Unfortunately there are still close to 0 other options on iOS for background play, at least it has the benefit of not being chromium on iOS
Sideload https://github.com/dayanch96/YTLite
Sponsorblock, Adblock, background play, skip, etc all integrated
Sideloading on ios is easy now unless your device was ever provisioned for a dev certificate. If that’s the case and it’s still active then just sign it with your own cert. if it’s no longer active you either need a fresh apple id or you need to use one of the kind of sketchy signing services. Otherwise you just use like sideloadly, altstore, side store, etc
Also there is no chromium on ios. All browsers use webkit and are basically just reskinned safari. Some heavily modify this (eg orion can run some Firefox and chrome extensions) though
What scam? Or do you just mean the crypto stuff in general (which is fine, I’m not saying crypto isn’t a scam, just trying to understand you)?
Don’t use brave.
I don’t, but why?
It’s Peter thiel’s browser.
Oh BARF
Not in here, mister! This is a mercedes!
Uhm excuse me, it’s miss, thank you.
barfing noises
Apologies, I was referencing a silly movie
Oh shit I totally missed the reference, and I just recently watched that movie, oops!
Isn’t that for dogs?
This offends a lot of Mozilla stans, but Firefox isn’t much better.
They have similar links to shady people, often the same shady people… That includes two friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
And Mozilla still engages in discrimination today.
From the linked document, describing an unneeded round of layoffs:
People from groups underrepresented in technology, like female leaders and persons of color, were disproportionately impacted by the [Mozilla’s] layoff.
@[email protected] what do you think?
Mozilla Firefox isn’t much better. They have similar links to shady people, often the same shady people… That includes two friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
And Mozilla still engages in discrimination today.
From the linked document, describing an unneeded round of layoffs:
People from groups underrepresented in technology, like female leaders and persons of color, were disproportionately impacted by the [Mozilla’s] layoff.
Lol underrepresented in technology get the f outta here
People here went from “Brave is problematic” to “haha unnecessary layoffs” in no time flat. What’s with the performative cruelty all of a sudden?
Just because you close your eyes and imagine how you want the world to be doesn’t make it the Truth son now go brush your teeth.
Counterpoint, some websites behave better on chromium so using brave as last resort is not as bad.
Use literally any other chrome based browser.
I haven’t found one that blocks YouTube ads as well as brave does on iPhone.
Yes, I do have uBlock
Vivaldi seems to block adds well to iOS too.
Really the best I’ve found is 1blocker for Safari, but I got that when the lifetime version was a only few dollars. No clue how limiting the free version is. (Imagine subscribing to an ad-blocker! - but than again, how many people donate to ublock?).
Vivaldi’s ad blocker is really subpar compared to Brave or uBO. I tried using it for a while, and you have to tamper with filter lists (including disabling pre-approved advertisers) and it still fails in areas Brave doesn’t.
Ublock Origin Lite is available for safari and blocks YouTube ads perfectly fine.
Orion browser lets you use the real deal uBlock Origin
Have you tried adblocker extensions for Safari?
There is no chromium on iOS, all the browsers are actually the Safari in a trench coat.
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So which browser would you recommend? It looks like Firefox is the only one not based on Chromium
Firefox has some very good forks including Waterfox (pretty normal) and LibreWolf (pretty privacy-hardened out of the box and may require a little Settings menu tweaking to make normal).
It’s unfortunate, but at the end of the day you kind of have to bite the bullet and accept that you will be using something downstream of something bad, e.g. Google (Chrome forks) or their money (Firefox is funded not by donations but by them).
Chrome forks aren’t just tainted by Google’s money; they’re tainted by Google’s power. Prefer a Firefox-derived browser if you care about web standards.
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STOP USING YOUTUBE. USE PEER TUBE.
If you are a content creator; especially a new creator, make peertube your default.
I’d love to see PeerTube get more use, but the one issue for creators is monetization. I don’t really see a great way for creators to make a decent income through PeerTube. We all hate the ads, but… That’s where a lot of their money comes from. Without a solution to that, creators are never going to embrace it, unfortunately.
There is buycoffie site to give donation to creators. Many yt creators dont get much money from yt ads cause they get demonetisation frequently.
But do things like that actually translate into respectable revenue? I understand that there are technically ways to get paid, but they only matter to creators if they actually fill their pockets.
The problem is nobody is crazy enough to host these much videos other than Google. Google wants to stay as a monopoly in long-form video sharing platforms and I don’t think Google is actually making much money in return comparing the cost if Petabytes of video files getting uploaded all the time.
Even after keeping a huge chunk of money that they get from advertisers, I still don’t think it’s that profitable but Somany people use YouTube and - they get to also stalk our online activity and do god knows what with allaaat data.
That’s a big part of what PeerTube tries to address. Yes, the videos still must be hosted somewhere, but PeerTube streams the video as a torrent where the host is the tracker and guaranteed seed while every client streaming the video is a torrent client that shares what it already has with every other active stream to reduce demand on the host. It’s not a perfect solution since the host must act as a guaranteed seeder, but for popular videos actively being streamed by many people at once, it has the potential to massively reduce traffic for those streams.
For less popular videos that may not have more than one viewer in any given moment, though, there’s likely no real impact. If it got some more development interest, I could see it getting archival clients that behave sort of like an *Arr server for media management, allowing users to save their favorite videos in exchange for acting as an extra seed over some longer term. That’d help, but it’s definitely not a full solution.
Absolutely do not use Brave. Just use Firefox mobile as well, it has ublock origin, sponsorblock, and background play.
Also, while it’s a bit rough around the edges, recanced YouTube still exists
Another good option for iOS is YTLite
When did iOS get ublock origin and sponsorblock as extensions for FF?
Edit: To all the replies, I’m just pointing out that the guy above me is wrong. Yes, Brave is bad. But FF is not a good replacement for Brave if you want ad blocking on iOS because iOS doesn’t support any browser extensions outside of Safari.
iOS doesn’t support alternative browsers unless they use Webkit underneath which comes with limitations. You have to upgrade to a better OS for it to work, or wait for the tide to turn (the EU has already forced Apple to be more open here)
Orion Browser supports extensions and seems okay.
Closed-source AI company browser…
I don’t believe it did.
Yes, because “Firefox” on iOS is just Safari with a Firefox skin
I have yet to see a reason for not using Brave that wouldn’t also apply to Firefox developer Mozilla. That includes appeals to morality, control from Big Tech, etc.
If Brave works (and on iOS it’s basically the only option with a reliable ad blocker) then I don’t see a reason to avoid it.
Would love to see somebody levy a complaint that doesn’t also apply to Firefox. Any takers?
That includes appeals to morality
I mean, you say that, and to some degree you’re right, but you do know that the Brave CEO is the same person that brought JavaScript upon us, right?
/j
sigh
The Brave browser is based on Chromium. Using it to get away from chrome does very little. Different browser, same engine.
It has less telemetry surely?
It’s also got a MAGA guy as the CEO though, and he’s a homophobic anti-vaxxer
If you absolutely have to use a Chromium browser for some reason it’s not the worst choice. But they’re pretty shady.
Yes. Less, but not zero. You’re still tied into Google’s ecosystem. Brave is basically Chrome with a few privacy settings enabled by default.
FireFox on the other hand is completely independent from Google, and more tweakable.
YSK with termux you can run yt-dlp on your phone
I don’t see it here but the top comment on reddit for this post was that:
If you have a VPN with a server in Albania to switch to that because serving Ads during streaming is illegal there. I have yet to test it but sounds legit and no one was nay saying it.
This is the way. Bonus points if your VPN does split tunnelling, so you don’t have to mess around turning it on and off.
Holy shit it does seem to work, just tried it on my phone with the yt app and I didn’t get a preroll ad
It does work. Also doesnt prompt me ti signin before videos play.
Any plugin claiming to bring back youtube dislikes usually does it with some off-site database, that can be easily manipulated, as the API for it has been deprecated completely.
For new videos (ones they don’t have old scraped data to rely on) they capture the like and dislikes from users who have the extension installed, and extrapolate the amount of dislikes from that ratio and the amount of likes YouTube shows.
Surely that doesn’t skew the data in any way.
I wonder if it would be trivial to hack one…
Yeah I don’t get it.
One shitty thing they’ve done that you can’t get around with these methods is the new “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”. I’m not going to pay for premium just to prove that, but 99.9% sure that on many videos added before this was introduced (that it was added to) they’ve degraded the base 1080p and the original is probably behind the new setting.
I hope I’m not right, but something tells me that the way it’s going, at one point they’ll only have 720p for non-premium.
yt-dlpis great for downloading media you’ve already found (or at least, playlists or creator channels you’ve already found), but you can’t use it for discovering new media. You still need a browser or GUI app like FreeTube or Newpipe for that, and it works better when you’re actually signed in with your Google account so that the recommendation algorithm works and it can keep track of what you watched for you.Don’t get me wrong; I would love to limit my interaction with Google to anonymously fetching video URLs. But none of the alternatives sync my watch history between devices or recommend new videos (beyond just new uploads from subscribed channels) to me.
I’ve been finding new stuff fine on YouTube without logging in. Though that probably only works well if you have other sources for inspiration, like recommendations from friends, bandcamp sites of small labels or music journalism. I use YouTube’s search function a lot.
TubeSync might fit your needs for part of it.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that’s not quite it. It basically does the same thing wrapping
yt-dlpwith a shell script and a cron job would: it takes a Youtube channel or playlist as input, and then automatically downloads it.You can tell by this screenshot:
I’m looking for something that handles the step before that, helping me discovering which channels and playlists I want.
It also doesn’t have anything to do with “syncing” in the way that I’m talking about, which is syncing account metadata between my devices, not syncing video data between Youtube and a local folder.
What I want is to be able to watch a video in Newpipe on my phone, and have it be automatically marked as watched in FreeTube on my desktop . And in my Google account, to the extent that I continue to use it while transitioning away. In fact, if I stop watching a video partway on one device, I want it to know the timestamp I stopped at so I can pick back up at the same point on another device.
Basically, I want the same experience I get if both devices are using the official Youtube website or app, but replacing the “report my habits to Google” part with a self-hosted solution.
Have you tried GrayJay with sync set up? It might suit your needs once set up properly. Yes, there’s a Linux desktop version, and an android mobile version. No idea on iOS
Why do y’all go with the absolute worst options to avoid YT ads?
Use NewPipe on Android. Use FreeTube on PC. Failing all those, use an invidious instance from any web browser that isn’t fucking Brave - I recommend inv.nadeko.net.
What’s wrong with Brave?
They keep doing shady shit. I was a Brave defender until I read all of that. At the end of the day, there is no shortage is Chromium browsers, so I might as well use one that doesn’t have this sketchy history. Like Ungoogled Chromium.
Brave is a web browser created by an add company with ties to Peter Thiel.
But if that’s not reason enough to avoid it, here are the three primary ones that come to mind:
- The only reason Brave exists is because Brendan Eich is a homophobic piece of shit who was ousted from Mozilla due to his active support for ending gay marriage in California.
- The privacy grift is a grift.
- The crypto scam.
For downloading on Android, i’d recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
FYI all those “dislike count” plugins seem to be wildly inaccurate. No idea why but the counts rarely match what YouTube studio will say is the dislike count on the uploader’s side.
Because they track the thumbs down themselves. It’s not able to pull from yt. So a different ext will have different numbers depending on how many install it.
Oh wow so its even more useless than I thought Lol. Thx for the info!
You can use Orion in iOS instead of Brave, which is shady as hell and owned by a bigot.
I just use FreeTube. No ads, no logins, no tracking, no BS.
I second FreeTube. Works great.
That sounds like a sign up ad pop up for one of those porn websites
