Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
46 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17602991, a year agoDoesn't work, begs for money to activate, nonsense for a browser extension!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18165527, a year agoDisclose that this is a paid product in the top of your extension description.
Edit: Use "Clickbait Remover for Youtube" add-on instead of this.Developer response
posted a year agoIt does
https://ibb.co/jRZ4WB5
Also, you can use it for free, just click "I don't want to pay"
Clickbait remover is a great addon too. The description of DeArrow lists the differences between them - Rated 1 out of 5by ㅤㅤ, a year agoHides YT's video titles sometimes, so I've got to reload the page. Buggy.
Developer response
posted a year agoDo you maybe have another extension that modifies YouTube titles like "YouTube Anti-Translate" or "Clickbait Remover"? - Rated 1 out of 5by DezTheDapper, a year agoIt has removed all the titles from videos, disabling this addon alone and refreshing the page has fixed the issue. Once this has been resolved I will remove this review.
Developer response
posted a year agoSounds like the replacement titles aren't properly loading in. Can you send an email to dev @ ajay.app so I can and help debug the issue?
Potential solutions:
- Uninstall and reinstall
- Try visiting https://sponsor.ajay.app to make sure the domain is not blocked by your network - Rated 1 out of 5by eladmizrahi, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by make it stop, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by WRS13, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by DevEd, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tim, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kenoayko, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bobby, 2 years agoEDIT: I'm curious why the developer has intentionally decide to get the extension to make changes where no changes are required - especially since it provides a worse user experience with YouTube. They haven't explained the licencing...
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People needlessly change titles and thumbnails for no reason, not to mention they do so incorrectly most of the time.
Eg.
Titles: brand and product names have a specific capitalization set by the brand and product owners but people will change it to something else. People will also randomly capitalize random words in the title.
Thumbnails: thumbnails show exactly what the video is about and they use the correct words to describe it exactly. People will change it to a random thumbnail.
If people can't get the fundamentals right, then why would i trust the extension to actually correct a misleading/clickbait title and thumbnail.
Like SponsorBlock, there is no quality control. Anyone can submit any garbage and everyone else just has to put up with it. There is no method to hide submissions by those who submit garbage.
Furthermore, why does the extension require a paid licence?! People contribute towards the extension for free. Are you seriously planning to do a rug pull on those that add value to the extension.
Sure you're giving out free licences right now, but when will that change?Developer response
posted 2 years agoResponse to edit:
The defaults are chosen in the way that I, and many others, like to use the extension. They are on the aggressive side, but that's why I made the extension so customizable. There are numerous options to turn down the aggressiveness, and you can configure all of these options per channel to be able to be aggressive with some channels, but less aggressive with others.
People have different opinions on what they like, I personally like all titles auto formatted and having all thumbnails replaced.
About the license, there will always be a free option, and all license keys are unlimited use, so you can use them on new devices and you can even share it with your friends.
I promise to never remove this, and I wouldn't want to do this anyway, as I want as many people to using DeArrow as possible, as that's how crowdsourced extensions works.
The soft-ish paywall acts as an aggressive donation barrier convincing a few people to donate, but still allowing everyone else to use the extension with all it's features just like anyone else. It is not meant to restrict who is using the extension. Only a certain amount of people need to pay to make it work.
Thanks to the paywall system, I am now earning enough money that I will be able to work on SponsorBlock and DeArrow full time when I graduate school in January and I am very much looking forward to that :)
Original Response:
I think you are misunderstanding some parts of the extension. The things you are talking about are not human submissions, but configurable automatic systems enabled by default.
By default, it auto-formats titles if no user submission exists. These are not submitted by users, but an automatic formatting system. You can change how this auto-formatting works in the options and also disable it.
By default, it shows a random screenshot from the videos from thumbnails if there is no human submission. You can also configure this in settings if you don't like that behavior, or disable thumbnail replacements altogether if that's not your thing.
Lastly, it is not possible for me to "rug-pull", as the code is open source under a copy-left license, and the database is publicly downloadable, and several other people are actively mirroring this data.
Hope that makes things clearer :) - Rated 1 out of 5by FFUSER, 2 years agoAlthough it says it is free, I don't think it is. I requested for a free license a few days ago. I haven't received any and it still asks for payment.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoYou may have missed the text on the "request free access" prompt, but originally it was supposed to take 3 weeks. 1.2.16 changes the "request free access" time to 3 days instead as that seems like a more reasonable duration, so once you update, you should get access much quicker. - Rated 1 out of 5by Pat, 2 years agoDude, I know that being a hobbyist isn't exactly the easiest thing. But asking for payment for an addon that crowdsources youtube title changes really isn't a vibe
- Rated 1 out of 5by Xaymar, 2 years agoSuddenly asked for payment after months of being free. No thanks.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoIt is only supposed to be for new users. If you already used it, you are not meant to pay. If this did happen, if yo could click copy debug info and send me the info to dev @ajay.app that could help me try to figure out why that would happen.
For now, please use FsMBU-348de to get back in - Rated 1 out of 5by natsume, 2 years agoCrowdsourced softwares but having backend paywalled? Hope someone (such as Invidious team) to fork this and make it for free or at least have some kind of payment and validation that is actually anonymous (and not PayPal/VISA/MasterCard/...). Also sending a unique key that can be associated with the API calls even for once just for validation is not very good, if I remove that portion of code, the extensions' features may not work due to my extension is validated by the server.
Also a license key for those who don't want to pay: FoLI3-b678aDeveloper response
posted 2 years agoIt's only validated once when you click redeem. You are free to remove the code. It is not linked to your userID or any submissions. The only use of the stored license key is for you to be able to view it at a later time in the popup and options. - 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 1 out of 5by SynthForce, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Charlie S, 2 years agoI do not agree that there should be a pay wall for late adopters. That makes it more difficult to get good crowd sourcing metrics, which is required for good performance.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThe idea is to have an easy enough free access system to not cause any issues like that, but time will tell how it works out - Rated 1 out of 5by hoggys2much, 2 years agoTotal utter garbage! Tried it and Youtube completely DIED on me. Pages were still trying to load even after 5 minutes. Nothing worked, I had to close down all my Youtube tabs and it slowed down Firefox something rotten. I have deleted this utter garbage from add-ons. Do not use.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoEdit: the update to fix this has been released
As described in an earlier reply, I am current working on a fix for improved performance on Firefox. I should have it out today or tomorrow :)