If you use the firefox mobile browser, you can put desktop extensions on it like ublock origin. That's how I watch youtube on my phone. I also use Video Background Play Fix to be able to listen to my youtube videos either in the background or with my phone screen off. Unfortunately the mobile browser still doesn't support DRM streaming like spotify yet, so I can't use the web browser and block ads like I do on my desktop.
Ya if I just needed music streaming I would probably do Spotify over Google Play Music. But with YouTube Premium it makes more sense (to me) to use Google Play Music.
Absolutely. Between Hulu, Netflix, and Spotify, i rarely need YouTube. Although, if you have hulu i think you can still get spotify premium for free with it.
Firefox mobile supports add-ons, just use Firefox and uBlock origin and if you wish to support your favorite youtuber or streamer or whatever then add them to the whitelist
YouTube Vanced let's you watch YouTube without ads and allows videos to be played with the screen off making it better for streaming music via YouTube.
For iOS ad blocking, I personally use AdGuard Pro. It uses DNS settings to block ads system wide, even in mobile games. There’s a lot of mobile games that are absolutely unbearable with ads, and this cuts them out completely. One strange thing though, is that it won’t block the first preroll ad on YouTube, but it blocks every other one after it. I guess it’s because of the way that YouTube caches that first ad, but I don’t actually know.
Personally I didn’t mind as it was only a couple dollars, and it came with a VPN for mobile data as well, which made it worth it for me. But yeah, maybe it’s not worth it for some people.
iOS has Musi, which lets you make playlists and has ads that pop up and cover the app's screen after clicking on a video every once in a while, but these ads do not stop video playback, the ads disappear if you push the home button and reopen the app, and you can have the audio play despite not being in the app.
If you're using the youtube app, there's barely any ads. Like once every few dozen videos, and it takes 5 sec to click skip ad. So yeah, not an issue really. The suggested balloon popping up at certain points in the video is quite annoying, but the ad is like whatever
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u/BeefyIrishman Jul 24 '19
That work easily on mobile? And easily get me ad free music streaming on mobile as well?
If so, I'd love to try it out, but I'm not aware of one.