It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:
- It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
- It has ads right out of the box.
- It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
- They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
IronFox seems to be highly recommended elsewhere in the comments but I don’t browse on my phone, I just use the default Vanadium, which is Good Enough™.
Brave Browser Mobile has adblocker - a good adblocker, at that, since I’ve never had problems with Youtube’s anti-adblock measures. Sucks that the people who run it suck, but the people who profit from ads probably (in a net sense) suck even more.
IronFox does look pretty good too, though. Never heard of that.
Yeah that was one of the original selling points for me. Being able to use YouTube without ads, play audio with phone locked and YouTube actually works better on the browser than the app.
FireFox on mobile has ublock, that beats any other browser imo
And sponsor block