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
Materialious has DeArrow, but apparently only the desktop and Android clients work. The web client is blocked by YT unfortunately :(
Public Invidious instances are kinda Dead at the moment
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
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)
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
