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Is there a third party YouTube client that supports DeArrow and actually works nowadays? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] es_eskaliert@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It says here that LibreTube works, and I just checked and can confirm. In its settings, choose SponsorBlock -> Enable DeArrow.

[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah I know I tried this one recently too but with recent YouTube restrictions It doesn't work for me anymore

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

yeah, nowadays i think they changed their focus from watching directly from YouTube or piped to being a client for personal instances, quite a shame...

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

did you try to change instance in settings?

[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There were some preset piped instances in it I tried some of them. I have to mention that I use a VPN to access YouTube and maybe that is my problem but I have to use a VPN since YouTube access is restricted where I live

[–] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Dev is implementing a local only mode for the next version. It can be downloaded from the Nightly-Builds Repo if you want to try it.

This is the link to the nightly-builds: https://github.com/libre-tube/NightlyBuilds

Be aware that it is a Debug-Build so it will be a bit laggy

[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks but How can it solve "confirm you're not a bot" error without a logged in cookies?

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use LibreTube and I can confirm that with settings "Disable Piped proxy" and "Local stream extraction" enabled it works. Give it a try

[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah someone else suggested that too I installed it again and to my surprise it works for now but I'm sure I tried the local extraction the last time too anyways thanks gonna test it for a few days with multiple VPN servers to see if it really passes Edit: it still doesn't work with some VPN servers "confirm you're not a bot" error