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

  • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    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.

      • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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        4 days ago

        It used to be called BraveNewPipe, yes. But the NewPipe folks want to trademark the name, so name got changed to BravePipe.

          • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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            3 days ago

            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.

            • aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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              3 days ago

              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)

              • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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                2 days ago

                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.