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Back to not using YouTube on mobile.

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I'm not a power user, but I have found this combination works well:

Firefox + uBlock Origin + Video Background Play Fix

uBlock Origin -> removes the ads (but no sponsorblock) Video Background Play Fix -> lets you turn off the screen or switch tabs with it still playing

I've got another solution, it's kiwi browser (or Firefox, if they've graciously allowed us to install extensions we want on our machines) + redirector (add on) + invidious.

> Firefox, if they've graciously allowed us to install extensions we want on our machines

The F-Droid guys have forked Firefox for Android to let you use any extension you want. They named it Fennec as the older Firefox, but is just the name, the codebase is the new Fenix one.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

It's not forked by f-droid, it is maintained by Mozilla to not contain any proprietary blobs in accordance with the official f-droid repo policy, and last time I used it it only allowed curated extensions as of the fenix update. I'll try it out again.

Yeah Fennec is to Firefox, like Chromium is to Chrome.

I found an even easier combination:

Doing none of that and just pay for YouTube premium.

I pay for YouTube premium and use vanced.

Why?

Because sponsorblock is fantastic and I can set my default video speed to 2x.

That's it. That's all I wanted. But I was more than happy to install and maintain the app to do so.

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