Post #3895194
2026-07-09 22:10 UTC
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 :(
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@not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-10 06:28
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
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@SpacePanda@mander.xyz 2026-07-09 22:48
Ive been having a lot of issues with grayjay too.