Re:Show HN: Search YouTube without stopping the video, and m...
by tripzilch on Friday June 03, 2016 @01:20PM
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> - Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched.
if you're not logged in (personally I only log into gmail in a private tab), you just get the related videos, which are (imho) fine.
if you're logged in, yeah. useless.
> - I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works.
Firefox for Android has extensions, among which uBlock Origin, which blocks the youtube ads.
I also have some thingy to block the ads in the Youtube app but that's an Xposed-mod, which requires a rooted device (if yours is rooted, Xposed is highly recommended, many useful mods for many apps)
if you're not logged in (personally I only log into gmail in a private tab), you just get the related videos, which are (imho) fine.
if you're logged in, yeah. useless.
> - I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works.
Firefox for Android has extensions, among which uBlock Origin, which blocks the youtube ads.
I also have some thingy to block the ads in the Youtube app but that's an Xposed-mod, which requires a rooted device (if yours is rooted, Xposed is highly recommended, many useful mods for many apps)