Don't use brave.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Absolutely do not use Brave. Just use Firefox mobile as well, it has ublock origin, sponsorblock, and background play.
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It's still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings
Unfortunately there are still close to 0 other options on iOS for background play, at least it has the benefit of not being chromium on iOS
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yt-dlp is great for downloading media you've already found (or at least, playlists or creator channels you've already found), but you can't use it for discovering new media. You still need a browser or GUI app like FreeTube or Newpipe for that, and it works better when you're actually signed in with your Google account so that the recommendation algorithm works and it can keep track of what you watched for you.
Don't get me wrong; I would love to limit my interaction with Google to anonymously fetching video URLs. But none of the alternatives sync my watch history between devices or recommend new videos (beyond just new uploads from subscribed channels) to me.
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Any plugin claiming to bring back youtube dislikes usually does it with some off-site database, that can be easily manipulated, as the API for it has been deprecated completely.
For new videos (ones they don't have old scraped data to rely on) they capture the like and dislikes from users who have the extension installed, and extrapolate the amount of dislikes from that ratio and the amount of likes YouTube shows.
Surely that doesn't skew the data in any way.
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sigh
The Brave browser is based on Chromium. Using it to get away from chrome does very little. Different browser, same engine.
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YSK with termux you can run yt-dlp on your phone
UBO recommends firefox.
I don't see it here but the top comment on reddit for this post was that:
If you have a VPN with a server in Albania to switch to that because serving Ads during streaming is illegal there. I have yet to test it but sounds legit and no one was nay saying it.
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You can use Orion in iOS instead of Brave, which is shady as hell and owned by a bigot.
Or just don't use YouTube at all
STOP USING YOUTUBE. USE PEER TUBE.
If you are a content creator; especially a new creator, make peertube your default.
I'd love to see PeerTube get more use, but the one issue for creators is monetization. I don't really see a great way for creators to make a decent income through PeerTube. We all hate the ads, but... That's where a lot of their money comes from. Without a solution to that, creators are never going to embrace it, unfortunately.
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Don't forget YouTube revanced for mobile.
Morphe also (successor to Revanced). Android only but awesome if you can use it.
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for android, you could use youtube revanced
it even has an option to replace the youtube text with youtube premium
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on ios you can also use firefox focus, it doesn’t have ads on youtube, but iirc you can’t stay logged in because it doesn’t save cookies (tho that could be a positive depending on how you look at it)
vivaldi ios also didn’t have ads on youtube, but it’s been a while since i used it so it may have changed and it’s a pretty heavy browser in my experience
orion also supports firefox/chrome extensions but in my experience it’s adblocking (even with ublock) isn’t perfect. but again, it’s been a while so maybe it’s better now
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I'm having horrible performance issues with waterfox that I don't have with vanilla Firefox. It's like the waterfox window is running at 5-10fps with horrible latency.
You can use Invidious too
I just use ublock, but even if i didnt and used all the ones above that would be like what 5 min of my time, one time? Now you want me to directly download all the videos i may watch and somehow thats easier? Yeah im good, no ads for years now and thats all I want.
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YouTube Search Fixer is also a must have extension. It removes all the bullshit yt is trying to feed you.
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