Best Dearrow and SponsorBlock integration in alternative YouTube clients
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Hi guys just wanted to know in your opinion which one of the Android yt clients have integrated dearrow and SponsorBlock extensions features in the most complete way (like the desktop extension)
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That would probably be ReVanced, modded version of the official client. Fully supports both, just enable em from the settings.
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Tubular and Libretube (both available on f-droid btw)
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There's also a FreeTube Android fork, but it's not on F-Droid
https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid
Highly recommend FreeTube on Desktop, though, if you are still in the browser. Has Dearrow, SponsorBlock, and a ton of options, plus a couple of Firefox extensions where you can redirect any YT links to open in FreeTube. Also uses Invidious on the backend.
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Yes at the moment I'm using Revanced yt but wanted to find a way to get rid of it and MicroG all together
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You sure tubular integrated dearrow?
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Thanks I'm already using freetube Desktop with libredirect like you suggested. Didn't know there is an Android app too
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ohh, as I set sponsorblock for it some time back, I thought it also did it, but it does not.
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Well, it is available on the IzzyOnDroid separate f-droid repo, so if using the f-droid client, you can still grab freetubeAndroid with it
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Grayjay!
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Yeah but I can confirm LibreTube has both. awesome
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I don't think they integrated de-arrow in grayjay yet
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Yea, I noticed that, but I have never used or heard of IzzyOnDroid before. Not sure why we need an abstracted layer for F-Droid.
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Hell yea, fuck Google!
What OS are you running? What other apps are you having troubles replacing besides these?
I'll give you whatever info you need to pull the plug on the crooked bastards.
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Thanks but I'm kind of a veteran myself. I run GrapheneOS and the only Google service I use is YouTube ReVanced with MicroG. I decided to replace it with Pipepipe wiwhich does not have dearrow as LibreTube and others that use some kind of proxy won't work with a VPN anymore and I need to use a VPN to access YouTube unfortunately
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Cool! I think you meant Newpipe? Probably autocorrect. I usually use that one as well, since I don't really watch YT on my phone not having sponsorblock or dearrow doesn't really bother me.
And yea, the proxy/VPN thing is a widespread issue that affects all YT alternatives. The root cause is YT themselves blocking ranges of IPs if they determine it is a data center or VPN (and also random nsig changes). Every once in a while it will start working, but then you'll get blocked after watching one vid.
This same reason is why the amount of public Invidious instances has dwindled and they now recommend self-hosting it. Even with FreeTube, I can't use a VPN. You might still encounter some issues from time to time even with Newpipe through a VPN.
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No it's really is PipePipe (I know what a silly name) and since it gets updated more frequently than other forks I thought it might be better and yeah you're right I can't access YouTube proxy services because I use a VPN but then I have no choice so that's that
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hahaha... indeed what a silly name!
That's a bummer though. It's only going to get more difficult to view anything on YT privately.
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Not sure why we need an abstracted layer for F-Droid.
Because the default F-Droid repository has some security issues: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
IzzyOnDroid avoids this by using prebuilt binaries that are properly signed by the actual developers, instead of building and signing apps themselves like F-Droid dies
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I see, I've never looked super deep into F-Droid or released anything there, I didn't realize that a requirement for releasing on F-Droid was that they build it. Just read their inclusion criteria, interesting.
