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You must be using the app?

Yea, I'm using the app.

Can't you use Firefox with uBlock addon on an iPhone?

Firefox on iOS does not support add-ons.

iOS does not allow "real" alternative web browsers with their own rendering and JavaScript engines, so Firefox on iOS is forced to being little more than rebranded Safari.

No, the iPhone is locked down too much for this to work. Browsers in iOS are basically just skins on Safari/WebKit.

I use youtube.com (desktop version) in Mobile Safari and get adblocking without jailbreak.

I prefer the desktop website because it lets me watch the videos in better quality than the mobile website. m.youtube.com seems to limit the maximum bitrate and/or resolution of the videos. Did anyone else notice that?

I use Lockdown in my iPhone. It reduces the problem for now although I already see YouTube working around it some of the time.

As far as I understand it is a creative hack that use a local VPN server or something to block ads.

I pay for youtube premium, or red, or whatever it was called, since I was grandfathered in by google music. No ads.