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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
I'm not following your logic here. Why would you want to get rid of ReVanced? It's not a Google product any more than other alternative frontends, right?
Because It's modded official YT app with probably a lot of telemetry and phoning home in background
I guess I just assumed they'd remove the telemetry, but yeah, shouldn't assume.
I did the same... ditched all google services, except maps and revanced. They're just unbeatable right now in terms of user experience
Yeah I agree. I'd love to get rid of maps, but location history is just way too valuable to give up, and I couldn't find anybody else who does it.
I also really like navigation that's responsive to current traffic levels. Obviously even if someone else provided that, them having fewer users would mean it's not going to be very effective, but I'd be willing to switch to someone else who at least was attempting to do that, even if their userbase wasn't there yet.
Right now though...nobody that I could find even tries to do either of those crucial features.
Could you list the replacements you use? I am especially wondering about Google maps.
I use Organic maps and if I "need" to use Gmaps, I use GWMaps, which is a privacy focused wrapper of the Google Maps site. Got it from Frdroid.
Try both Magic Earth and Organic Maps but none of them work flawlessly like Google Maps and you have to either give up on it or make concessions
organic maps is great, also magic earth