Ocene za DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube — Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Ocena uporabnika Dishater
Ocenjeno z 3 od 5
— Dishater, pred 2 letomaLet's get this out of the way, this doesn't remove clickbait. There's too many channels posting garbage by the second for new titles to be submitted and the De-Arrow user count is a fraction of SponsorBlock's.
What this actually does is remove sensationalism from channels that people watch regularly. Sometimes to an asinine degree. (ha i know big word)
"The city with a hundred private cable cars" is a video from Tom Scott. A De-Arrow user changed this to "Wellington has over one hundred private cable cars". For some reason I guess "this city" was deemed too sensational or vague, so adding the city name and a slight rewording makes it less so?
Another Tom Scott example, "Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel" becomes "Modernization of a Japanese hotel that is technically the world's oldest operating business". Okay, an example of a title that's actually de-sensationalized by a user, but now it's longer than needed and over-descriptive. Many titles are like this, if the De-Arrow community made a restaurant menu, common delicacies would include "Not actually French potato fries" and "Ground beef patty sandwiches with vegetables, condiments, and cheese in soggy buns".
De-Arrow has a voting system where you can dislike or like submitted elements and submit your own, but the Tom Scott examples above are submitted and locked by VIPs.
What's a VIP? Well, someone with insider access who can submit titles/thumbnails and no amount of dislikes or voting can displace their locked submissions. Currently, there's no way to apply for VIP status, it's strictly for the coolest of dudes. I'd be fine with VIPs getting an voting boost based on their status, but not being able to vote on these titles is stupid. This isn't SponsorBlock, where a Sponsor segment can be objectively correct based on start/end time, someone may be able to summarize the info into something better, like "Modernization of the oldest operating hotel".
Filler tangent/jokes aside, I'd still recommend De-Arrow to display auto-generated or user-submitted thumbnails, I don't have much to complain about there other than thumbnails sometimes not loading when enabled. For title replacement, you can use the "channel allowlist" so selected channels use custom blocking settings, although some visual issues occur on YouTube when both whitelisting and blacklisting, keep that in mind.
What this actually does is remove sensationalism from channels that people watch regularly. Sometimes to an asinine degree. (ha i know big word)
"The city with a hundred private cable cars" is a video from Tom Scott. A De-Arrow user changed this to "Wellington has over one hundred private cable cars". For some reason I guess "this city" was deemed too sensational or vague, so adding the city name and a slight rewording makes it less so?
Another Tom Scott example, "Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel" becomes "Modernization of a Japanese hotel that is technically the world's oldest operating business". Okay, an example of a title that's actually de-sensationalized by a user, but now it's longer than needed and over-descriptive. Many titles are like this, if the De-Arrow community made a restaurant menu, common delicacies would include "Not actually French potato fries" and "Ground beef patty sandwiches with vegetables, condiments, and cheese in soggy buns".
De-Arrow has a voting system where you can dislike or like submitted elements and submit your own, but the Tom Scott examples above are submitted and locked by VIPs.
What's a VIP? Well, someone with insider access who can submit titles/thumbnails and no amount of dislikes or voting can displace their locked submissions. Currently, there's no way to apply for VIP status, it's strictly for the coolest of dudes. I'd be fine with VIPs getting an voting boost based on their status, but not being able to vote on these titles is stupid. This isn't SponsorBlock, where a Sponsor segment can be objectively correct based on start/end time, someone may be able to summarize the info into something better, like "Modernization of the oldest operating hotel".
Filler tangent/jokes aside, I'd still recommend De-Arrow to display auto-generated or user-submitted thumbnails, I don't have much to complain about there other than thumbnails sometimes not loading when enabled. For title replacement, you can use the "channel allowlist" so selected channels use custom blocking settings, although some visual issues occur on YouTube when both whitelisting and blacklisting, keep that in mind.
Odgovor razvijalca
objavljeno ob pred 2 letomaAs for the second part of your review about "VIP" locked titles, we have partially resolved this by having now allowing them to submit segments as normal users for when it seems better to leave it up to votes. We also have a channel that logs downvoted "VIP" locked titles to fix if there are issues.
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- Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— dysfun, pred 2 dnevomaapparently wants to force me to activate it before it'll work at all, except the activation button is just flat out missing. waste of time.
- Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— chefski, pred 12 dnevi
- Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— ss, pred 16 dnevi
- Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Uporabnik Firefoxa 19682243, pred 25 dnevi
- Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— Alpherio, pred 25 dnevi
- Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— mark100, pred enim mesecemOne of the best YouTube extensions out there.
It's up there with Sponsor block and UBlock Origin.
It's very time saving, especially when browsing through your recommendations page (it makes your digest more productive.)
Most of these big tech channel videos are frequently summarized into a small sentence.
I've found it most useful for tech videos (as most custom titles lie here)
The feature where it shows a random screenshot of the video in the thumbnail is amazing, it helps me preview videos that are obviously AI generated.
I love this extension, and I suggest others to contribute to the project by:
buying the product - it's only $1 !!!
donating to the developer.
source thumbnails and titles yourself to help expand the project!
share it with your friends.
the only problem I have with it, is that it isn't popular enough, making custom titles quite rare in normal feeds. - Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Uporabnik Firefoxa 18414040, pred enim mesecem
- Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— reachus_peachus, pred enim mesecem
- Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— l0lill0, pred enim mesecem
- Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Eti, pred 2 mesecema
- Ocenjeno z 4 od 5— CS-FF, pred 2 mesecemaThe remove emojis feature is not working for me. There is an original title that isn't replaced and the emojis are there despite having the option checked.
Odgovor razvijalca
objavljeno ob pred 2 mesecemaCan you verify if you are on the latest version of the extension? (2.3.6) - Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Chris Hayes, pred 2 mesecemaGenuinely improves my YouTube experience.
Yesterday for some reason it stopped working and was making Firefox hang, so I disabled it. I forgot I did that and was wondering why YouTube suddenly felt a lot more click-bait-y than usual.
I love that thumbnails actually represent how the video looks, and that I no longer see video titles that tell me absolutely nothing about the video.
My $1 has been well worth it. - Ocenjeno z 4 od 5— Uporabnik Firefoxa 17842467, pred 2 mesecemaI don't understand installing it and subsequently leaving a negative review for the fact that it does what it says, or for the $1 dollar payment that you *don't have to pay.* That said, this is often broken and may not always be as useful as you'd think (people like to inject their opinions into the new titles for example; this is often fixed eventually but it's kinda irritating when bad titles stay up). You can just go through the settings to limit or remove title changes, though.
Edit: Re-read what I said, this is a pretty neutral review -- unchanged by your response.Odgovor razvijalca
objavljeno ob pred 2 mesecemaIf it's still not working for you, try making sure it's not asking for extra permissions. You can go to about:addons, and click the gear icon and click "Check for updates". If there is a popup in the top right asking for permissions to access dearrow.ajay.app (the DeArrow homepage), click "Update" - Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Penny, pred 2 mesecemaBig fan of this extension, occasionally youtube will make changes and break it, but it is always back working pretty quickly
- Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Aaron, pred 3 meseci
- Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— Uporabnik Firefoxa 19858893, pred 3 meseci
- Ocenjeno z 4 od 5— Fledrox, pred 3 meseci
- Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— DrWhoFan13, pred 3 meseci
- Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— SDM, pred 3 meseci
- Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— mguia, pred 3 meseciIts crazy how an app that supposedly is against preadatory marketing has such a predatory and cynicala monetization strategy of promising to be free while its not
Odgovor razvijalca
objavljeno ob pred 3 meseciHi, it's not meant to be predatory, and does not promise to be free. It is a paid extension that allows most people to use it for free if they choose - Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Uporabnik Firefoxa 14902700, pred 3 meseciGreat extension, can't imagine my life without it now.
But just yesterday it stopped working. First the button to show original video title and thumbnail disappeared and now all titles and thumbnails are original clickbaity ones. Changing any settings in the extension or restarting it doesn't help sadly :(
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Reinstalling the extension fixed the issueOdgovor razvijalca
objavljeno ob pred 3 meseciHi, this was fixed in version 2.3.4 which has now been reviewed by Mozilla so you should be able to just update
Edit: they made another change, it's fixed in 2.3.4. If you don't want to wait for Mozilla to review it, you can install the beta by clicking "FirefoxSignedInstaller" on https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow/releases/tag/2.3.5 - Ocenjeno z 1 od 5— bnvnnchgcccc, pred 3 mesecichanges titles that dont need to be changed at all, and it changes them to a longer much worse version of the same title. the original was already descriptive, useless app, terrible user titles
Odgovor razvijalca
objavljeno ob pred 3 meseciYou can try enabling "casual mode" to keep the funny or interesting titles, or use the "default to original information" button to only see the custom title if you click a button - Ocenjeno z 5 od 5— Uporabnik Firefoxa 19218008, pred 3 meseci
- Ocenjeno z 3 od 5— Aleksandersen, pred 3 meseciInteresting concept, but the extension frequently breaks YouTube — images and features fail to load every few weeks until you disable this extension.
Odgovor razvijalca
objavljeno ob pred 3 meseciAt the moment, sometimes the first recommended video will be blank. There is an update to fix this, but it is currently still being reviewed by Mozilla. You can install the beta version by clicking the "FirefoxSignedInstaller" on https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow/releases/tag/2.3