Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
300 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Suitov, a year agoGood lord, the brain cells this has saved me already. I'm a cheap booger, but I fully endorse paying the optional $1 if you value your time, because this will save you so much of it.
To take one example from YouTube's recommendations: this extension's suggested titles change "The Cuphead RIP-OFF That Gets EVERYTHING Wrong" (exaggerated language, annoying all-caps, doesn't even name the game reviewed) into "Talking about Enchanted Portals and why it failed to live up to expectations" (names the game in question, summarises discussion, no sugar-fuelled screaming, could be made more concise).
It also changes the thumbnail to show the actual game under review instead of angry red-eyed Cuphead with the word "trash".
I'm neurodivergent and find clickbait language very annoying, and often just won't click on something if it seems deceptive or cagey about what the content will be. It actually causes me a non-zero degree of anxiety, and I don't like feeling manipulated like that. So this extension? Absolute game-changer. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18192038, a year agohas a tendency to replace video titles with content descriptions, which, while good, does spoil the twist of the video in some cases (see hbomberguy's robloxoof.mp3 video) and can end up removing thumbnail art that is more of a title card than clickbait.
biggest suggestion would be to allow for a setting to remove clickbait while allowing actual titles to stay, but then you're asking a democratic userbase to deal with nuance sooo
overall ok first impression, good job Ajay Ramachandran.
edit: tbh, it's more funny than annoying to meDeveloper response
posted a year agoI recommend using "Default to original details" in the extension settings for your preferences - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18143422, a year agoWith this on, home and some other pages often show nothing but an "you're offline" YouTube message. Will remove this and put 5 when it'll be fixed. I paid for this
Developer response
posted a year agoThis sounds like an issue caused by your ad blocker. Try uninstalling all ad blockers installing ublock origin, and following ublock's instructions
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/20586
Remove custom filters and update
You can email me for further help dev @ ajay.app - Rated 5 out of 5by Mammut, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17487433, a year agoThis guy saved me time.
I am like a little kid, hooked easily on fraud thumbnails.
Now, I can finally see the accurate thumbnails!!!
Thank you, Ajay. - Rated 5 out of 5by Nyaa, a year agoI love the extension. The only negative thing is I've seen a few people use it to alter some people's transgender coming-out videos to have transphobic titles. What is the process to report/remove these titles when this (Or any harassment in general via title submissions) happen? I voted those titles down and they quickly get buried, but is there more that can be done?
Aside that, thank you very much for making this, YouTube gets very tiring when every video is a guessing game for what the video is actually about. - 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 5 out of 5by mintparades, a year agoLove this extension. Absolutely don't regret paying for it. I use YT all the time and clickbait titles are becoming so infuriating to me. The crowdsourced title replacements are always accurate and easy to understand. I switched from Chrome to Firefox recently and I was able to seamlessly use the same product key to get it on my new choice of browser. Thank you!
- Rated 2 out of 5by folgoris, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adam, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tixie, a year ago
- 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 5 out of 5by Bartolomey, a year agoБыла проблема с активацией (ошибка на моей стороне).
Расширение работает великолепно.
Разработчик быстро ответил и помог. Спасибо!
There was a problem with activation (error on my side).
Expansion works great.
The developer quickly answered and helped. Thank you!Developer response
posted a year agohey, could you email me at dev @ ajay.app since AMO only allows one reply.
Do you maybe have javascript disabled in your browser? It should work even in that case, but there was an issue like that in the past that looked like that. - Rated 5 out of 5by Kosro, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BillyCool, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arin, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IxI_JOKER_IxI, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by overwerked., 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by eladmizrahi, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16955814, 2 years agoA very good program. It's a pity that I can't pay even such a small amount of money. sanctions.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nico, 2 years agoEdit: Putting this back at 5 Stars, due to it being bugged. Sorry about that. :(
This removes a lot of Clickbait.Developer response
posted 2 years agoResolved the issue here https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow/issues/158#issuecomment-1761901080
There was a misunderstanding - Rated 1 out of 5by make it stop, 2 years ago