I pay for YouTube as well, it's worth it bc of YouTube music which I like better than Spotify, I just need podcasts to get on board and we will be good to go. I will add YouTube is the only media I pay for (other than peacock for 1 month a year to watch tour de France)

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox with ublock origin plus autoplay while you're in a music playlist says what?

Seriously firefox mobile can play stuff in the background. If you didn't know

[–] citrusface@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I've not had good luck with Firefox on mobile, I use duckduckgo. I'm not forcing anyone to do what I do. YouTube is my main source of media for the most part. I use it on my smarts TV's in my house - and I haven't set up computers on all TV's yet... So it is what it is and it works for me.

Edit: down voting my personal opinion and what I choose to spend my money on for my own convenience isn't going to change my mind... Just saying

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

That’s one of the big values for me, the effortless smart device support. Sure I know tech shit and I block ads in every browser I use, but it’s nice when members of my family can just use the YouTube app, full featured, on whatever TV/phone/tablet they have access to at the moment. It’s not a matter of whether I can watch YouTube for free without seeing ads, it’s a question of whether the convenience and creator support are worth the cost of a drive thru meal per month. Add in YouTube music and I don’t even think about it any more.

It’s an ease of use thing, kind of like how Steam ended PC game piracy for many people.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh I think I know what you mean. DDG + Firefox has some weird behavior on YouTube. I can watch the videos but if I wanna properly load the page it gives me a request failure.

It's kind of frustrating on mobile. Have you tried loading through a different search engine? It's not a big issue for me but it's something I experience too as I'm a DDG user