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Norgur@kbin.social 9 months agoNot everyone is using Youtube exclusively on their phones, you know?
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Norgur@kbin.social 9 months agoNot everyone is using Youtube exclusively on their phones, you know?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I did not know it was phone exclusive. Seems like a worthwhile reason to get BlueStacks.
SLaSZT@kbin.social 9 months ago
Why should I use an Android emulator to run an app on PC instead of the many browser front ends for YouTube?
Norgur@kbin.social 9 months ago
or an adblocker and tampermonkey for that matter
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
People keep complaining about frontends and plugins failing and having to switch strategies, but newpipe works flawlessly.
It’s less work.
SLaSZT@kbin.social 9 months ago
I've never had that issue with Piped or Invidious, though sometimes I've had a specific instance not load
However, I've had numerous issues with Bluestacks and it's a huge memory hog, not to mention it's overkill to install an entire OS just for 1 singular purpose that can be done just fine on your native OS.
It's a layer of abstraction that's almost entirely unnecessary except for 1 use case: watching YouTube without ads.
Toribor@corndog.social 9 months ago
Not if you have to run an entire android emulator to access it.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I’ll chose to interpret this comment as a joke, but if anyone wants a desktop app for YouTube, check out FreeTube. No ads, subscriptions without a Google account, Sponsorblock integration, videos can be proxied through Invidious if wanted.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Oh it’s okay, if your comment is a joke you probably don’t need to write it.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I meant your comment that I replied to. Suggesting emulating an Android app as the easiest way to watch YouTube on desktop is plain old silly.