Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Response by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Developer response
posted 2 years agoI am happy to fully refund you, send me an email dev@ajay.app
You seem to be looking for something different from what DeArrow is.
DeArrow at the moment is not for filtering and hiding videos that are low quality, but instead of about reducing sensationalism in all videos (the high quality ones too). You seem to be looking for something very different, which is fine.
When I look at my YouTube feed, I see many high quality videos created by great people. The problem is that they are all obscured by sensational and unappealing packaging (the titles and thumbnails).
The goal of DeArrow is to be able to look at that feed of already high quality videos without having to deal with the current sensationalist title/thumbnail trends and know what which of those videos to choose from based on what their actual content is.
I hope that makes the purpose more clear :)
You seem to be looking for something different from what DeArrow is.
DeArrow at the moment is not for filtering and hiding videos that are low quality, but instead of about reducing sensationalism in all videos (the high quality ones too). You seem to be looking for something very different, which is fine.
When I look at my YouTube feed, I see many high quality videos created by great people. The problem is that they are all obscured by sensational and unappealing packaging (the titles and thumbnails).
The goal of DeArrow is to be able to look at that feed of already high quality videos without having to deal with the current sensationalist title/thumbnail trends and know what which of those videos to choose from based on what their actual content is.
I hope that makes the purpose more clear :)
378 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by mark100, 3 days agoOne 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18414040, 16 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by reachus_peachus, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by l0lill0, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eti, 21 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by CS-FF, a month agoThe 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.
Developer response
posted 21 days agoCan you verify if you are on the latest version of the extension? (2.3.6) - Rated 5 out of 5by Chris Hayes, a month agoGenuinely 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. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17842467, a month agoI 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.Developer response
posted a month agoIf 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" - Rated 5 out of 5by Penny, 2 months agoBig fan of this extension, occasionally youtube will make changes and break it, but it is always back working pretty quickly
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aaron, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19858893, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Fledrox, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DrWhoFan13, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SDM, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by mguia, 2 months agoIts 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
Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi, 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14902700, 2 months agoGreat 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 issueDeveloper response
posted 2 months agoHi, 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 - Rated 1 out of 5by bnvnnchgcccc, 2 months agochanges 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
Developer response
posted 2 months agoYou 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19218008, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Aleksandersen, 3 months agoInteresting concept, but the extension frequently breaks YouTube — images and features fail to load every few weeks until you disable this extension.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoAt 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Alise, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dilum Perera, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18863959, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Al3415, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jorb, 4 months agoUsed to be amazing. Now with the latest Youtube changes it's very inconsistent. Most videos that use to have custom names and thumbnails no longer do, and only a few here and there still have them. The majority of videos also don't even allow you to submit new titles anymore, the textboxes to do so are absent.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoHi, is this still happening to you? Could you send a screenshot to dev @ ajay.app