Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Review by Suitov
Rated 5 out of 5
by Suitov, a year agoGood lord, the brain cells this has saved me already. I'm a cheap booger, but I fully endorse paying the optional $1 if you value your time, because this will save you so much of it.
To take one example from YouTube's recommendations: this extension's suggested titles change "The Cuphead RIP-OFF That Gets EVERYTHING Wrong" (exaggerated language, annoying all-caps, doesn't even name the game reviewed) into "Talking about Enchanted Portals and why it failed to live up to expectations" (names the game in question, summarises discussion, no sugar-fuelled screaming, could be made more concise).
It also changes the thumbnail to show the actual game under review instead of angry red-eyed Cuphead with the word "trash".
I'm neurodivergent and find clickbait language very annoying, and often just won't click on something if it seems deceptive or cagey about what the content will be. It actually causes me a non-zero degree of anxiety, and I don't like feeling manipulated like that. So this extension? Absolute game-changer.
To take one example from YouTube's recommendations: this extension's suggested titles change "The Cuphead RIP-OFF That Gets EVERYTHING Wrong" (exaggerated language, annoying all-caps, doesn't even name the game reviewed) into "Talking about Enchanted Portals and why it failed to live up to expectations" (names the game in question, summarises discussion, no sugar-fuelled screaming, could be made more concise).
It also changes the thumbnail to show the actual game under review instead of angry red-eyed Cuphead with the word "trash".
I'm neurodivergent and find clickbait language very annoying, and often just won't click on something if it seems deceptive or cagey about what the content will be. It actually causes me a non-zero degree of anxiety, and I don't like feeling manipulated like that. So this extension? Absolute game-changer.
295 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by ramiel, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Morgoz, 6 days agoWorks great with English content however since it is crowdsourced when it's not popular in certain countries or certain languages it's really hard to find an usage. Still, a great extension for English YouTube videos.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15145534, 9 days agoJust miss a miscellaneous tab (like sponsorblock has) where we can ad other domains to use it (invidious). But works great with youtube.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tanh, 9 days agoYouTube is a steaming pile of crap unfit for human consumption without DeArrow and SponsorBlock (and uBlock Origin).
- Rated 2 out of 5by asid, 12 days agofrustrating. most titles / thumbnails are either verbose / useless or don't change at all. picking titles or thumbnails (both of which you have to do after already clicking on the video) does nothing 90% of the time and reverts after it does work, probably because majority vote matters more than your own, rather than just being the default used.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18841606, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18730969, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by RaphGL, a month agoAwesome, this and sponsorblock are literally making youtube less of a clickbait hellscape
Only gave 4 stars because it lacks the community sponsorblock has and the UI is a bit finicky, it definitely needs to be improved. Once the community is there, this extension will be much more useful since we can better rely on the voting system and be able to overwrite most videos out there more easily. - Rated 5 out of 5by baller, a month agoAjay my man, made Dearrow 100% free without having to beg via email for russians :heart:
- Rated 5 out of 5by potato, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SDS, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ivan, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15028866, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15148485, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14272180, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18794785, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by blackrose, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by James, 2 months agoA great add-on if you dont want a click bait title and thumbnail
- Rated 4 out of 5by Gaming4, 2 months agoThis is a cool extension, dont find it too useful for the stuff I've curated for my feed though. Could be cool if you could filter out music videos thumbnails, so that you can see the original ones, other than that this works great.
- Rated 1 out of 5by yowidin, 2 months agoMakes YouTube almost unusable: adds a considerable delay to every UI interaction. For example pausing or resuming a video takes 5-20 seconds.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoIt seems like another extension might be conflicting. Could you try disabling other extensions? Maybe another extension is also changing video links. - Rated 1 out of 5by malau, 2 months agoThis extension no longer works with Firefox >133. The popup box that asks you to confirm that you are adhering to the 3 main rules is just a blank black box.
When it used to work - 5 stars
To devs reply. Yes, I understand how it is SUPPOSED to work, because it USED to work in the manner you describe. But now I just get a blank black box where the rules SHOULD beDeveloper response
posted 2 months agoThere are four rules. You have to check off each rule at a time. It only happens on your first submission and every few weeks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Alan, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SRS, 2 months agoIts a good add-on (as expected from Sponsorblock dev), however i believe it relies a bit too much on crowd sourcing
In my opinion, it should use one of those AI websites which summaries a youtube and do it for the titles. - Rated 1 out of 5by Th4t, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ad-Free Life, 2 months agoThis is an interesting compromise. I think I'll keep using it, because it makes the recommendations/searches a lot more relaxing to look at. But the downside is making videos seem better than they are, because if the title and thumbnail are bad, the video itself probably is too, and this hides that signal. I haven't been using it all that long and there's already been a couple times when I've really hated a video, then looked at the original title and thumbnail and realised that I wouldn't have clicked on it if I wasn't using DeArrow. It does prevent videos from lying about their contents in the title, so it may well save time overall. There's a deep problem with Youtube that is probably impossible to patch over with a browser extension, and this is still a useful tool.