Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.
Yep, I’ve replaced the YouTube app with a shortcut to YouTube on Firefox mobile, and I’ve relegated the official YouTube app to the “app hell” folder.
you can likely just disable the app
Yeah, I’ll probably uninstall it eventually. I’m keeping it around for a couple of months in case I need it, but haven’t gone back to it so far.
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