Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
305 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Keiro, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by sparrow, 2 years agoit was really great but it stopped functioning and deleted all text in youtube
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17454722, 2 years agoWhen using this add-on, don't forget to enable the feature where your volunteered contributions get sold for a profit. Oh, and don't forget to enable the feature where the developer criticizes you for stating this and tries to rationalize the paywall 😍
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ulrich, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17993023, 2 years agoe2: my original complaint still stands since the default is forced for every client and there's nothing to stop everyone else from picking a worse thumbnail just because it picks whever you happen to be in the video when you edit it --- and it being a crowdsourced extension means that more often than not the thumbnails are an out of context or blurry mess. not to mention people editorializing the titles or overly sanatizing them.
e: thanks for the reply - guess i was blind due to the extension being tucked away in the 'more extensions' thing. still annoying that its default behaviour though, especially the thumbnail thing. surely picking a random motion blurred time is more detrimental than a potentially clickbaity thumbnail?
forcing titlecase is obnoxious, really wish there was a toggle for that as it kinda steamrolls the grammar/form of other languages just because they happen to use the latin script (!) or stylistic choices for the video title.
also by default it seems to choose your current position in the video as the new thumbnail even if you haven't explicitly picked it - a lot of times results in people removing an okay thumbnail and it getting replaced with motionblurred nonsense.
i know it sounds petty but if these are my only two bits of feedback then it must be good !Developer response
posted 2 years agoPlease check the options, there are options related to all these things. You can even configure things like formatting to be different for specific channels - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15221227, 2 years agoI love letting the community crush the stupid trends of marketing like this. I just wish it was more self-explanatory how to use the tool, as I actually needed to watch the how-to video to learn where to click to make my own changes, and even that barely covered the actual details of how it works.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17199694, 2 years agoSimple concept with great execution/implementation!
- Rated 5 out of 5by split, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by unnamed-orbert, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by vbcoadifuaospifu, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SynthForce, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by yoda, 2 years agoI like the idea, but thumbnails appear blank half the time (despite selecting show random screenshot in settings + I have fast internet). In the meantime, I'm using clickbait remover add-on for thumbnails and this for titles.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThis was a due to a server outage, and a bug preventing it from using the backup server properly when the main server is down.
Server is back so it should be good now, and I'll fix that bug so it doesn't completely break for other server outages in the future - Rated 5 out of 5by vasiliy, 2 years agoI like the idea and the implementation very much, well done and thanks to the author!
- Rated 5 out of 5by jep, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rey, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sellyme, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NekoPavel, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hamsterwolf, 2 years agoThis is, without a doubt, THE best extension I've ever seen on Firefox. Browsing YouTube is now a pleasant, stress-free experience that no longer makes me feel irritated or angry by moronic thumbnails. I just wish we could toggle it for certain channels since I do enjoy seeing Binging Wish Babish's thumbnails, but that's an extremely small price to pay for the peace of mind this brings.
- Rated 4 out of 5by ds, 2 years agoit's great but when i open youtube video it's lag unit somthing happen which i suspect is loading recomnded video thumbnail i have i laptop with 16 gigabyte of ram i think that could be the reson for this lags
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12501197, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15007095, 2 years agoUnfortunately it conflicts with "BlockTube", which is number 2 priority addon for me for youtube (3 is being SponsorBlock), so i have to disable it for now. But otherwise it's pretty good so far.
Reply (12.07):
I think i mostly have the default settings, but to be fair, its kind of a little buggy addon by itself, and i never found any better alternative.
It did work ok 3-4 days before that (ignoring the thumbnail and general lag), but after that some videos just suddenly stopped playing altogether, and other ones break mid-play, and disabling "dearrow" instantly stopped all of it.Developer response
posted 2 years agoInteresting, it shouldn't. Are there specific settings you have enabled in BlockTube that conflict?
Edit: oh that's a separate issue, but that should be fixed now - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15695248, 2 years agoI have been dreaming of this addon for years. Ajay Ramachandran is a god among us. Thank you Ajay for all that you do!