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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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[–] Fake4000 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] SonnyVabitch 38 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Several words: mobile Firefox, ad block, disable youtube app, disable known links to youtube.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Several more words:

Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake!

[–] SonnyVabitch 13 points 1 year ago

We didn't start the fire!

[–] Why9 4 points 1 year ago

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...

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, always search it on github and tell people to find it on github if you can't provide a link for them.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

youtube ~~on modern phones~~ sucks

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, Newpipe is a lot better option.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I've been using YouTube Vanced for years, and now ReVanced, after Vanced got killed. it's a bit tedious to set up on non rooted phones, but even then, it's such a huge upgrade. no ads, let you pick your own quality, SponsorBlock built in, background play, lots of payout control options.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I pay for Premium but I still use Revanced just for the sponsorblock feature. It's great!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recanced is even easier to set up imo. Just patch & install

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I remember Vanced being simpler, only making you download the patched app, where ReVanced wants you to uninstall your YouTube updates, find the APK of a specific version, then patch it. not exactly hard for most enthusiasts but still out of reach for most. absolutely worth it though!

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[–] ruabmbua 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not to forget: the adds are high definition anyway...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

If you're on android I highly recommend ReVanced

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Quite a few NewPipe mentions here 😁. Another option is NewPipe SponsorBlock, which has support for Return Youtube Dislike and of course SponsorBlock

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[–] Jackthelad 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even when I select "higher quality" on WiFi, it still defaults to 480p.

And then I have to manually select 1080 every time.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] merci3 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Use the Firefox nightly build and you can bring your desktop experience to mobile.

Not only can you use sponsorblock but also ublock origin. Plus you can use picture in picture and play the videos with your phone locked by default

Its literal perfect fir my usage

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Use Newpipe or libretube

[–] woelkchen 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] pete_the_cat 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My phone always defaults to 4K, it's definitely something up with your phone/the app settings.

[–] dinckelman 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On mobile, it usually manages to set itself to my desired resolution, on a modded client, but sometimes youtube just does unexplainable things. I have an addon on desktop that forces playback at a specific res, and even then it would casually decide to play 360p

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[–] bappity 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You could teach a CLASS on how terrible the YouTube mobile app UX is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also wtf, even with vanced, it makes me subscribe to hit play next? Thats such a basic function.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just use newpipe on my phone, freetube on linux. I appreciate that you don't need an account to "subscribe" to channels.

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[–] arin 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube sucks, period. The best innovation they had recently was copying a Chinese company douyin and making shorts while for years they were pushing long form videos to creators and punishing short form videos 💀 dead brains in YouTube executives

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Youtube sucked a lot less before this cancerous tiktok clone format was introduced.

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