Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
188 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18493127, 8 months agoThis add-on makes Youtube seem so dull.
And that's a good thing.
Only issues I can see is that I keep checking the original titles out of curiosity (which is my own fault) and that the page lagged severely when I tested it on Mr. Beast's channel (which was rather amusing). - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18100227, 8 months agoImmediately my YouTube homepage became much easier to the eye, I'm also way less prone to click on stuff I really wouldn't have clicked otherwise (which I bet is exactly the purpose of this).
I like it so much more, in a sense the thumbnails become a little insipid, which is something one has to unlearn, but overall this extension brings unfathomed peace.
I think that acronyms should remain unchanged, since its easier to comprehend what's the title all about; also looks better, specially on team names and such.
Thank you very much. I'm an unpaid user, so thank you again and will send my grain of sand once I'm able to.
Thanks again. As an avid YouTube user, I really recommend this extension.
Check other extensions such as SponsorBlock, Enchancer for YouTube, Return YouTube Dislike and YouTube Short Block, all of which I use. - Rated 5 out of 5by Leo7K, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by geeknik, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shad, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sengonul35, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dikunav, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kloassie, 10 months agoWorks like a charm. I have the free 'version' bc I don't have a credit card (no need) and no paypal (don't trust pp), but when I find a suitable way to donate, I will. Anyways, I'd like an option to personally whitelist channels for showing original thumbnails - eg music channels that continuously show babes as thumbnails, I don't mind those polluting my view :-P
Developer response
posted 10 months agoCheck out the settings and "channel allowlist" feature. You can make a custom profile with whatever settings you want for specific subsets of channels. - Rated 5 out of 5by schammelam, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17476401, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bee, 10 months agoThis makes YouTube an infinitely better user experience! I really appreciate the lack of visual clutter all the loud thumbnails cause especially. It does make my subscriptions & home page load a little more slowly, but that's well worth it in my opinion.
For some channels I'm subscribed to (like crochet/craft channels), I found I missed the thumbnails because those show the finished craft product, thankfully it was easy to whitelist those.
I did also change the default thumbnail replacement from "random" to "auto-generated by YouTube", which led to less awkward half-blink faces in my feed.
Once activated, the extension immediately worked on all my devices where I'm logged in to Firefox, and I was able to re-use the activation code on a shared family device where I am not logged in on my Firefox account. Overall, a great experience and well worth the 1 euro.Developer response
posted 10 months ago> One minor negative is that in some interfaces (like browsing a channel's videos) the blue logo button doesn't work to view the original title/thumbnail, because it will open the video link instead.
Hmm, maybe that is because of a new YouTube layout. I'll look into it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Frans, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cyber, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by aNkIt9607, 10 months agoLoved this one. I recommend to everyone to use this extension to save yourself from clickbats thumbnail
- Rated 5 out of 5by Caio, a year agoPaid extension? I am not buying anything!
EDIT: Is it donationware? I will test it, maybe I can make a contribution. - Rated 5 out of 5by LolZoide, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wally, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by z-, a year agoIncredible work by the same creator as SponsorBlock. I feel such a hatred towards clickbait because I know what I'm interested in, and I will click on those videos but I hate it when I feel the rug has been pulled from me (even though my investment may only be a minute). Also, it's difficult to re-find a video when the video isn't just titled what it's about.
Ajay is the person to do this correct. Ignore the 1 star reviews they're by people who don't want to pay $1 (single time donation) even though you can just not pay, but do pay and let this important service have a chance of surviving.
Ajay, you should set up a Patreon or something tho, SponsorBlock has a huge number of users and I really want to see this and that be around long term.Developer response
posted a year agothanks :)
sponsorblock and dearrow are definitely here for the long term, but the best way I've tried to ensure that is by making sure all submissions are downloadable and archived at https://sponsor.ajay.app/database making sure that the projects can be quickly taken over by another responsible person if something does go wrong - Rated 5 out of 5by Ajue, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nintendogamer15, a year agoSuper cool idea for an extension. Some reviews are ragging on it for it being (optionally) paid, which is kind of silly. Dude has made YouTube much, much more bearable. He deserves your dollar.
- Rated 5 out of 5by John, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13908055, a year agoLove this addon and SponsorBlock! You don't need to pay for it but I did anyway because I really appreciate the work the dev is doing to improve YouTube and save my mental health from OTT clickbait. This addon works great and I'm glad that it takes community submissions to help make the extension even better and get better video coverage! Thanks Ajay!