Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Review by 00yunje
Rated 4 out of 5
by 00yunje, 2 years agoDepending on who you're subscribed to, this might not make much impact on your browsing experience. Due to titles being crowd-sourced, not every video will be equally affected. Sometimes, the suggested titles can get REALLY pedantic for otherwise perfectly serviceable titles. For example, "The History of The Simpsons Hit & Run World Records" by Summoning Salt became... "The History of The Simpsons Hit & Run (All Story Missions) World Records". Like, that's *barely* more information, and it's stuff I think most people would've assumed anyway from the original title. However, in both cases I've seen this happen, they've reverted back to the original titles soon after. (There's not even a record of there ever being a proposed title, so you're just gonna have to trust me that they were there. I know what I saw.)
Generally, they make the biggest difference with channels like Kurzgesagt or Tom Scott, creators they specifically showcase in the screenshots. Titles can be a bit of a mixed bag for others, but more for the fact that not every video - that might need a retitle - will get them. The generic thumbnail replacer makes the bigger difference to me, imo. It just gives you an honest impression of what each video's gonna look like, literally. And it's nice not having to deal with the obnoxious, gaudy thumbnails people put out sometimes.
Despite the occasionally questionable re-titles, I think the crowd-sourced titles are decent and in good faith. I appreciate the number of guidelines the devs put out to even propose a proper title. It sort of feels like Wikipedia - it might have its vandals, but collectively I think it's in good hands.
Generally, they make the biggest difference with channels like Kurzgesagt or Tom Scott, creators they specifically showcase in the screenshots. Titles can be a bit of a mixed bag for others, but more for the fact that not every video - that might need a retitle - will get them. The generic thumbnail replacer makes the bigger difference to me, imo. It just gives you an honest impression of what each video's gonna look like, literally. And it's nice not having to deal with the obnoxious, gaudy thumbnails people put out sometimes.
Despite the occasionally questionable re-titles, I think the crowd-sourced titles are decent and in good faith. I appreciate the number of guidelines the devs put out to even propose a proper title. It sort of feels like Wikipedia - it might have its vandals, but collectively I think it's in good hands.
393 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by ChickyKnight118, 15 hours agoGreat addon if people contribute to it! also, i noticed that most of the one star reviews are about it being payed, it is soft-walled, so you don't actually have to pay. just click "I cant/Wont pay" or use this key: FgNKa-17de0
- Rated 4 out of 5by sw4usgeb0uwen, 18 hours agoIt's fun and useful/good for the brain, but it has had at least one period where it just didn't work - having it enabled would stop any youtube video from loading.
Not quite as useful as sponsorblock which i think the creator also made. Submission menu could do with some work - Rated 5 out of 5by Kamik, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13298932, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by onigari, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ju, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by user 21321321321, a month agoSimply amazing! Shame that so many people don't understand the soft paywall...
Developer response
posted a month agoIt is pay what you want, you can use it for free by clicking "I don't want to pay"
or using this key: FgNKa-17de0- Rated 3 out of 5by a real guy honest, 2 months agoLove the idea but literally not a single video on my page had any submitted titles for it. My advice is to use AI to summarise the video into a title and put that in your database rather than relying on ONLY crowdsourcing.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ythan, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20013628, 2 months agoNo activation button available, only trial for 6 hours. So every 6 hours i have to reactivate it, essentially replacing one annoyance with another.
Yea, I'm never paying for this, would've considered it if it just flat out said it's a paid extension, which it is.Developer response
posted a month agoClick "I don't want to pay" at the bottom, and you can use it for free, forever
Or use this key: FgNKa-17de0 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18901250, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by yogi, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SleepyLatte, 3 months agoOpen source and community driven but give me money. Intresting concept, so the money you make, do you give it to people who actually keep this garabge running? Oh no you dont, because you totally did all of the work! Like no one else on this planet was willing to do it for free, just another cancer
Developer response
posted 3 months agoThis extension has a soft-paywall, you can use it for free by clicking "I can't/don't want to pay"
The code is released under the GPL license for anyone to use as see fit
Just like with SponsorBlock, the entire database of submisisons is published at https://sponsor.ajay.app/database under a creative commons license - Rated 1 out of 5by dysfun, 3 months agoapparently 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.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoThe button shouldn't be missing, but if you are having trouble, you can send me an email: dev@ajay.app - Rated 5 out of 5by chefski, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ss, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19682243, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alpherio, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mark100, 4 months 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, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by reachus_peachus, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by l0lill0, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eti, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by CS-FF, 5 months 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 4 months agoCan you verify if you are on the latest version of the extension? (2.3.6)