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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by skilledtothegills to c/technology
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[–] setsneedtofeed 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Firefox is GOAT, but I do have Brave installed on my phone specifically for playing YouTube. The Brave browser automatically blocks YouTube ads, allows me to play videos in windowed mode, and allows me to play videos with the screen off.

I don’t do anything else in Brave, so I’ll probably hang onto it as basically a YouTube app.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

You might want to look into NewPipe then. Lets you do all those things with YT, plus you can also download the videos or their audio only

[–] setsneedtofeed 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I’m on an iPhone, which I why I don’t use all the other things Android people suggest.

Brave has been about the only thing I’ve found that works and is easy for iPhone.

[–] marcus 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You could check out uYouPlus then, it doesn’t require jailbreaking or anything but instead works through “sideloading”. I’ve used it for years and it’s honestlygreat:

https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Or they could keep using Brave? I use Brave on my phone and Firefox on my desktop for the same reasons mentioned, but in general Brave is a great browser on phones. I'm amazed it isn't hugely popular if only for the YouTube features.

[–] FightMilk 7 points 1 year ago

“No you MUST uninstall Brave, the company is too shady!” -someone using a phone made by a literal advertising company

[–] marcus 2 points 1 year ago

Of course they can, I never said they couldn’t. I just personally prefer YouTube’s app UI and UX over the website on mobile.

[–] setsneedtofeed 3 points 1 year ago

I’ll look at it further thanks.

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