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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by mey on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:17PM (#23480932)
Firefox Preview / Firefox both can run uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger and work very well with Youtube's mobile website. The only thing I notice that is missing is Chromecast integration, but I fine living without that.

Upside is one less native app on my devices.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by chin123 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:11PM (#23481506)
Why is having one less native app an upside? From my experience, mobile websites are much more cumbersome than native apps, especially in this case because NewPipe is so much better than the YouTube mobile website.
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by mey on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:51PM (#23482566)
Native Apps have more permissions to your system, like running in the background, information about your device, storage and code execution. Running a 3rd party Native Application to get around Youtube ads requires a lot of trust that that application does not have malicious behaviors.
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