It used to be possible right ? doesnt have to be a strictly youtube focused site either, being able to grab url from other sites are always a plus, only suggest apps that are on fdroid (main repo) .

Also for those who dk and might find useful you can use webtor to get a network stream url from magnet links, tho i wont suggest it as the lag and experience is abysmal and misses important functions like seeding .

  • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Yeah, the main tip was that you can use whatever you use to grab streams from youtube on firefox on your computer and add that addon to a collection to get it on your phone.

    • godlesspriest@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I didnt read the article cause i aldready had a way to add computer only addons to ff android which is visit addons site in desktop mode and click on see desktop addons suggestion and get desktop addons from there .

      • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        Ah, I take it this is the tactic you use?

        Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ rather than https://addons.mozilla.org/android/ when you find the extension you want to try use the menu button (hamburger/three stripe icon) and toggle “Desktop site” then you can use the “Add to Firefox” button.

        Otherwise, if you followed an extension link, you may have to switch to “Desktop site”, then remove /android from the URL in address bar.

        It should then install the add-on, but if it tries to download the file instead, then change privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager back to the default false in about:config.

        • godlesspriest@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
          2·
          21 hours ago

          yes, the first sentence, i didnt have any problem so idk abt the rest, but i only downloaded one extension that one time then removed it half an hour later, i try to keep my extensions to a minimum, i have three now and two are disabled ofcourse ubo being the one always active