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A little while back Mozilla put out a post ushering addon developers to prep their addons but I haven't heard anything else since, I don't wanna update to early and loose everything I already got

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[–] Bobito -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

on mobile i use brave because its the only app on ios that will background play youtube com videos without a fuss while also removing video player ads (among the rest).

if firefox allowed a plugin, or just supported this feature outright, i would have 0 reason not to use firefox on all of my devices.

i wish theyd stop sleeping on users like me.

e: hate me all you want for it, im still right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks a ton, never knew this worked

[–] Bobito 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no problem! it may act like other browsers before you enable background play in the browsers options menu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I found that, awesome! Brave now sits on my phone for the sole purpose of youtube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why use brave and not something like Newpipe or Libretube?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

not available on iOS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then just install LibreTube or Newpipe lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

On mobile I use Firefox to accomplish the same thing you just mentioned

Edit: Video Background Play Fix + ublock

[–] Bobito 3 points 1 year ago

to my knowledge plugins only exist for android, as i said im on ios so brave is the only option without sideloading or running old firmware for jailbreak.

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

ive never heard of it, i looked at it a little and it seems to be more of a self host thing, which is a potential nightmare for a casual users sanity and security. feel free to clarify if im mistaken.

brave blocks ads IN and out of the (mobile web) yt video player, and plays video in the background(lockscreen) with no setup at all out of the box.

to my knowledge there is not a single other first party app on the ios app store that does this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox isnt allowed to have addons, that could make the user have free choice.

[–] Bobito 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what? im pretty sure thats apples doing as android and desktop has plugins.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I barely understood what your saying, but. I have checked it, no addons on browsers other than safari.