Smartest thing I've done this month: Disable the YouTube app
I'm using a stock Samsung Galaxy 8 phone right now (with Android 10) and I disabled the YouTube app. I was basically sick of its s***. Since then, I never sign in to the app/site, and so may aspects of using the site are much better now.
- Everything is faster, since they don't know me / aren't tracking as much.
- I always open YT in Firefox Focus, which doesn't ever keep cookies or history each time I close it, so there's no history for YT to mine each time I visit again.
- I'm pretty sure I see fewer ads since I don't have a deep history for YT to mine / target.
- More random suggestions from YT means I am mostly broken out of the bubble caused by their tracking. I find new, interesting music, for instance, now, from the suggestions.
- Hitting "back" in the browser means I go back wherever I was before, not to the YT home page (like the app used to do to me)
I still visit the site often, and appreciate all the good music and channels I watch, but now it's overall a much more positive experience, more like YT was a few years ago versus the horrible mess it's become recently.
I'd still appreciate any other tips anyone has for making YT visits even more enjoyable.
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This is the way (assuming you mean Ublock Origin, which I understand is superior to just-plain Ublock.) I also use SponsorBlock.
I do mean Ublock Origin, just a bit lazy in typing.
I have sponsor block on the pc and do need to add it to mobile. (that lazyness kicking in again as it has only been a few weeks that you could add it)
Is sponserblock on the standard Firefox or is it on the nightly builds still?
You can get the sponsorblock exension on standard android firefox now, if that's what you're asking.
That was what I was asking. Thank you! I didn't know it was available yet.