Is there a third party YouTube client that supports DeArrow and actually works nowadays?
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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
It says here that LibreTube works, and I just checked and can confirm. In its settings, choose SponsorBlock -> Enable DeArrow.
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It says here that LibreTube works, and I just checked and can confirm. In its settings, choose SponsorBlock -> Enable DeArrow.
Yeah I know I tried this one recently too but with recent YouTube restrictions It doesn't work for me anymore
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Yeah I have been using yt ReVanced for years and you're right it supports both dearrow and sponsorblock but recently I have gotten rid of all Google apps on my phone except yt ReVanced and microg and I'm looking to finish the job
I'm not following your logic here. Why would you want to get rid of ReVanced? It's not a Google product any more than other alternative frontends, right?
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I'm not following your logic here. Why would you want to get rid of ReVanced? It's not a Google product any more than other alternative frontends, right?
Because It's modded official YT app with probably a lot of telemetry and phoning home in background
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Yeah I have been using yt ReVanced for years and you're right it supports both dearrow and sponsorblock but recently I have gotten rid of all Google apps on my phone except yt ReVanced and microg and I'm looking to finish the job
I did the same... ditched all google services, except maps and revanced. They're just unbeatable right now in terms of user experience
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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.
