Already the case with Reddit. My bank and credit cards keep pushing me, but haven’t required it yet - the moment they do, they’re gone. There’s nothing an app can do that a browser can’t also while giving me more control.
There absolutely is something an app can do better than a website in a browser. That being tracking you.
But yeah, Youtube in a firefox-based browser with uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block is just so much better than the official app. Sadly Google has become so aggressive with blocking users using a VPN that I cannot use Newpipe or Freetube anymore :(
on graphene often apps will say they don’t work because there is no playservices but then they work just finw bwcause of workarounds the os has in place, and i have mullvad on which has content blockers on the dns level if ypu activate them.
you can also fake giving them all permissions
on this setup mobile is actually more private i think, because of sandboxing, there is no cookies or refs but also not nealy as many fingerprinting markers that make you look super unique
They are trying their absolute best to make me not become a customer
Already the case with Reddit. My bank and credit cards keep pushing me, but haven’t required it yet - the moment they do, they’re gone. There’s nothing an app can do that a browser can’t also while giving me more control.
There absolutely is something an app can do better than a website in a browser. That being tracking you. But yeah, Youtube in a firefox-based browser with uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block is just so much better than the official app. Sadly Google has become so aggressive with blocking users using a VPN that I cannot use Newpipe or Freetube anymore :(
I’m putting my faith in the DDG tracker blocker feature, but tbh I have no idea if it actually works or not.
on graphene often apps will say they don’t work because there is no playservices but then they work just finw bwcause of workarounds the os has in place, and i have mullvad on which has content blockers on the dns level if ypu activate them.
you can also fake giving them all permissions
on this setup mobile is actually more private i think, because of sandboxing, there is no cookies or refs but also not nealy as many fingerprinting markers that make you look super unique
Ive been having a lot of issues with grayjay too.
I use morphe, its a modded version of the actual YouTube app.
Same with PipePipe. Whatever changes Alphabet/Google/Youtube are making are clearly meant to fuck with FOSS apps.
“Darn, I can’t watch youtube without ads.”
google: here it comes!! He’s openi-
“…I’m gonna read a book.”
google: FFFFFFWHAT!?