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If I use YouTube on mobile, I access by opening a new tab in Brave.

I deleted the app well over a year ago.

I am never force fed anything by Shorts.

I'll load the URL directly either in mpv (desktop or Mobile via Termux), or VLC.

Fuck YouTube entirely.

The pain of using the Web interface is precisely the point, as someone's KPIs are steering users to apps. That's succeeding, though it's not YT's apps which are substituting....

I still miss the mps-yt app, though I'd found an alternative recently, yewtube (still need to try it out).

<https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube/issues/1191>

<https://iamtalhaasghar.github.io/yewtube/#installation>

NewPipe is a godsend on Android.

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind.

Given that I'm generally driving an e-ink device, mpv/Termux is actually preferable for playing audio-only.

Actually, that's my preference in most cases for "video", especially anything that's talking heads / expository.

There's also effectively no data surveillance capture possible, other than IP.

And NewPipe + Sponsorblock does wonders at getting rid of unwanted in-video segments (intro, sponsors, etc, outro).

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