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). Edit: Thank you all amazing people for the feedback. I gonna use pipepipe (which doesn’t have dearrow) for now since Freetube android seems like needs more polishing for now and LibreTube doesn’t work for me (both of these have implemented SponsorBlock and dearrow)
That would probably be ReVanced, modded version of the official client. Fully supports both, just enable em from the settings.
Yes at the moment I’m using Revanced yt but wanted to find a way to get rid of it and MicroG all together
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Never tried it though, and not sure how bloated for a phone, but it’s easy to install/update with any f-droid client.
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.
I don’t usually recommend things I haven’t vetted myself extensively.
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 does
It also doesn’t have as strict inclusion criteria as the default F-Droid repo, so it is able to offer more apps
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.
ETA: Read through the whole article, and godamn. I don’t really trust anything Android any way, but this is actually a pretty damn big WTF from F-Droid. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks I’m already using freetube Desktop with libredirect like you suggested. Didn’t know there is an Android app too
Tubular and Libretube (both available on f-droid btw)
You sure tubular integrated dearrow?
ohh, as I set sponsorblock for it some time back, I thought it also did it, but it does not.
Yeah but I can confirm LibreTube has both. awesome
Grayjay!
I don’t think they integrated de-arrow in grayjay yet
