• starchylemming@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    thats why i have offline music for mobile use and when browsing on desktop like half of my Firefox extensions are specifically for youtube only lol

    from blockig sponsor segments, getting the dislike button back to disabling automatic translations of titles. there is a Firefox addon for everything

    not using it personally but there is an addon to auto select higher quality streams afaik

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      22 hours ago

      Yes, I have 4 add-ons for YouTube only (3 for youtube and one to change UI of YTM, technically a tamper monkey script).

      addon to auto select higher quality streams

      I meant on their mobile app. On web, there are ways. But on mobile, there is none officially. I have to manually select the 1080p thingy there. Ironically, New pipe has option for custom video stream for both wifi and mobile data.

      YouTube conducts so many useless experiments on their app from so called AI assisted summaries to what not, but can’t factor in basic things. Today, I bolted back to Tubular ( Newpipe fork) and the simple UI with only subscriptions is a sight to behold (no shorts, option to hide comments, sponserblock integration and not to mention, no furthur IAPs). If a paying user has to resort to 3rd party alternatives, then the situation is really grim (the only thing YT app officially has is 1080p Premium bit rate but it rarely went there automatically for me).