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by waivek 2827 days ago
Do you use a web app or a native app for YouTube?
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Yetanfou 2827 days ago
Why, good you asked: a native app called NewPipe [1] which eats Youtube URL's and plays videos (and allows the download of such), no more - and that includes no ads - and no less. It only sends such data as needed to get the video. Lately it has started to support Soundcloud as well, I have not tried this yet.

[1] https://newpipe.schabi.org/

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speeq 2827 days ago
I've started using the YouTube website on iOS because it uses the native video player and is ad-free then (some people put an ad-break every few minutes on documentaries for example which is super annoying)
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taeric 2827 days ago
I switched to firefox on my android for both Facebook and Twitter. So far, I've had very little downside to this.
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cobookman 2827 days ago
+1 dropped facebook native app for their web version. Never looked back.

I think the answer is some apps are better on web, others on native.

Videos / Music / Games / Email / Messaging are better native. For actual reading of content (HN / Reddit / Twitter / Facebook ...etc) I find better on the web.

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