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YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I hate web apps and electron for performance (incl. memory) reasons and the gestures are simply better in the app, not to mention Haptic Touch and crashing due to out of memory on iOS

On the API, that’s why I use a patched client. YouTube isn’t that aggressive with pushing new versions so you install a patched version of the old version like uYouPlusExtra

Also, even when the address bar is hidden in Safari, there’s a much smaller but still existent bar