alt Hacker News> My strong belief is they want apps because they can spam you with notifications to get your attention.
I believe the same about the Youtube App, I just can't see why else it exists and I hate the video links try to open in the app if you're not careful!
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uninstall the app. my life is much better since i uninstalled most apps and I just use the web pages these days. To take ONE benefit from not using the youtube app, and instead using a browser: I can open more than one video at once.
> I hate the video links try to open in the app if you're not careful!
Uninstall (disable) the app, YouTube on Firefox mobile is fine.
NewPipe mostly works except when Google breaks it.
Apps are also more difficult to intercept and modify on most devices. Companies like them because it means you can't use ad blockers or other privacy tools. It's also why they flip out so outrageously when Apple adds privacy tools at the operating system level, because tracking and abuse are most of the reason why apps are useful to them in the first place.
Casting from the web doesn’t work (on iOS at least) but that’s all I can think of.