Is there a third party YouTube client that supports DeArrow and actually works nowadays?
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Because It's modded official YT app with probably a lot of telemetry and phoning home in background
I guess I just assumed they'd remove the telemetry, but yeah, shouldn't assume.
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Hi guys. Basically what title says I have been using YouTube revanced since the beginning but now I'm looking for replacements so that I can get rid of the last Google app on my phone and microg all together but I really hate sensational thumbnails and titles on YouTube and kinda got used to DeArrowed thumbnails
Edit: link for the people who might not know what DeArrow is and might be interested
Not a 3rd party front end as such but on android I use YT through browser with DeArrow, Sponsorblock & uBO. I never sign in to YouTube, subscriptions & "watch later" i handle via a specific note set up in Joplin. Also all tracking is removed first via Untracker. Takes an extra few seconds to add links to Joplin but its become second nature & works well for me
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Not a 3rd party front end as such but on android I use YT through browser with DeArrow, Sponsorblock & uBO. I never sign in to YouTube, subscriptions & "watch later" i handle via a specific note set up in Joplin. Also all tracking is removed first via Untracker. Takes an extra few seconds to add links to Joplin but its become second nature & works well for me
Thanks Sounds good but I can't access YouTube without a VPN so I'm gonna get the "log in to confirm you're not a bot" error the second I open YT on web
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Yeah I know I tried this one recently too but with recent YouTube restrictions It doesn't work for me anymore
yeah, nowadays i think they changed their focus from watching directly from YouTube or piped to being a client for personal instances, quite a shame...
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I did the same... ditched all google services, except maps and revanced. They're just unbeatable right now in terms of user experience
Yeah I agree. I'd love to get rid of maps, but location history is just way too valuable to give up, and I couldn't find anybody else who does it.
I also really like navigation that's responsive to current traffic levels. Obviously even if someone else provided that, them having fewer users would mean it's not going to be very effective, but I'd be willing to switch to someone else who at least was attempting to do that, even if their userbase wasn't there yet.
Right now though...nobody that I could find even tries to do either of those crucial features.
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Hi guys. Basically what title says I have been using YouTube revanced since the beginning but now I'm looking for replacements so that I can get rid of the last Google app on my phone and microg all together but I really hate sensational thumbnails and titles on YouTube and kinda got used to DeArrowed thumbnails
Edit: link for the people who might not know what DeArrow is and might be interested
I use Freetube on both PC and Android which has DeArrow. There are also a few forks of NewPipe that have it, BavePipe is one of them.
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Yeah sometimes it doesn't work for me too but I think that's because I use a VPN
Same. I usually will change the VPN servers to non-English speaking countries. That usually helps.
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Could you list the replacements you use? I am especially wondering about Google maps.
I use Organic maps and if I "need" to use Gmaps, I use GWMaps, which is a privacy focused wrapper of the Google Maps site. Got it from Frdroid.
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I use Freetube on both PC and Android which has DeArrow. There are also a few forks of NewPipe that have it, BavePipe is one of them.
You mean brave NewPipe?
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You mean brave NewPipe?
It used to be called BraveNewPipe, yes. But the NewPipe folks want to trademark the name, so name got changed to BravePipe.
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It used to be called BraveNewPipe, yes. But the NewPipe folks want to trademark the name, so name got changed to BravePipe.
Thanks I checked it it has SponsorBlock but not DeArrow
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Thanks I checked it it has SponsorBlock but not DeArrow
Dang, apologies. Double checked. You are quite correct, my bad.
Freetube on Android/PC does have it, however. But it does have the many other options that a NewPipe derivative has.
Clipious is another one that does.
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Dang, apologies. Double checked. You are quite correct, my bad.
Freetube on Android/PC does have it, however. But it does have the many other options that a NewPipe derivative has.
Clipious is another one that does.
You're right. Clipious and FreeTube and LibreTube all have both of them but they don't have a solution for "sign in to confirm you're not a bot" error which comes up a lot when you use a VPN. only third party client that fixed this for me was grayjay with passing auth cookies (yes you have to sign in for the cookies unfortunately)
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You're right. Clipious and FreeTube and LibreTube all have both of them but they don't have a solution for "sign in to confirm you're not a bot" error which comes up a lot when you use a VPN. only third party client that fixed this for me was grayjay with passing auth cookies (yes you have to sign in for the cookies unfortunately)
I never get that message, say on Freetube, and I also use a VPN.
May I suggest you rotate to a smaller country's server? Specifically one that is well outside the West and that also does not use English as their main or secondary language. I noticed English speaking servers are far, far more likely to get flagged.I have suggested this to others with excellent results so far.
I have gotten that error when I check invidious on FF, but I am able to get by with uBlock on and just making sure JS is enabled. Never had that happen on Android clients.
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I never get that message, say on Freetube, and I also use a VPN.
May I suggest you rotate to a smaller country's server? Specifically one that is well outside the West and that also does not use English as their main or secondary language. I noticed English speaking servers are far, far more likely to get flagged.I have suggested this to others with excellent results so far.
I have gotten that error when I check invidious on FF, but I am able to get by with uBlock on and just making sure JS is enabled. Never had that happen on Android clients.
OK thanks I'll try to connect to asian countries servers from now on for YouTube
