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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
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.
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