• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Nearly 2 years ago (Sept. 27th 2021) they removed sign-in support for Android versions <= 2.3.7 and nearly 3 years ago (Sept. 20th 2020) they removed YouTube web app support for Android versions < 4.0.

    The latter is kinda sad. That YouTube web app opened videos in the browser’s video player and it didn’t support Ads. Yep, you didn’t even need Ad blocker.

    Unfortunately I don’t have the original screenshots, just this image I quickly put together for something, but it partially shows the simple (good) YouTube UI:
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