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.
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.
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.
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)
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
I’m not 100% sure about DeArrow, but ReVanced definitely still works, and it does support Ajay’s Sponsorblock, so I suspect DeArrow would also be supported.
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
Could you list the replacements you use? I am especially wondering about Google maps.
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 video links to Joplin but its become second nature & works well for me & of course this way let’s me save links to PeerTube content & any other sources too
Thanks Sounds good but I can’t access YouTube without a VPN so I’m gonna get the “login to confirm you’re not a bot” error the second I open YT on web
But I suppose it’s not what you’re looking for if you want ans it’s only for android smart TVs.
I love dearrow, it’s an invaluable tool. I wish grayjay (https://grayjay.app/) will support it in the future.
Edit: there is a fork the YouTube source with dearrow support, but not official. https://github.com/netux/grayjay-source-youtube
The fork doesn’t look like it’s being maintained unfortunately.
I have literally tried all of the YouTube Frontends I can find and grayjay is the most reliable of them all in my opinion but their YT plugin doesn’t support DeArrow. It seems like Louis Rossman doesn’t like these tools as he repeatedly said on his channel He’s not a fan of neither the SponsorBlock and nor DeArrow and understandably so after all he is a content creator himself. I wish instead of making a bunch of useless yt frontends someone would fork their plugin but I understand maintaining it would be hard work with YouTube constantly changing things in background and subsequent upstream updates need to be merged so who am I to judge I guess
Yeah I became aware of their stance on SponsorBlock while enabling it in Grayjay. TBH, if they are still giving me a choice, I don’t mind what their stance is on this. I (and this is my super personal opinion) much prefer to consciously donate than being served ads or passively contributing to the youtube sponsor hustle.
Yeah who cares as long as they have it. But that’s why I think they probably don’t have any plans to add DeArrow to their official YT plugin
Freetube
Yeah I have tried freetube android recently. It looked very alpha stage to me and lacking but promising
Nothing about it seems alpa to me, but it’s down quite often because youtube is fighting against it. I use pipepipe as a backup.
I meant their android port I use their desktop app that’s great
Funny how the desktop app doesn’t work for me either
Yeah sometimes it doesn’t work for me too but I think that’s because I use a VPN
