Is there a third party YouTube client that supports DeArrow and actually works nowadays?
Is there a third party YouTube client that supports DeArrow and actually works nowadays?
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 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
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
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.
wow just what I was looking for and it's abandoned
Ah true, stupid me I didn't even look at the repo history or commits. Thanks for pointing it out :)
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 I wish it was official! Love DeArrow and grayjay!
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
But I suppose it's not what you're looking for if you want ans it's only for android smart TVs.
Yeah it's the best YouTube Frontend for Android TV for sure
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