Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
203 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by make it stop, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TreBrock, 8 months agoAmazing extention. Removed so much clickbait. Goes perfectly with sponsorblock and ublock origin. bought it for 2 or 3 bucks on my iphone a few months ago and lost my key after i moved to an andriod and the dev gave me a new one :).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hayden, 8 months agoExactly what I have been looking for! Thank you Ajay for creating this extension. I use Youtube daily for work and hobbies: I find the click-baity titles vague, and the "shock face" thumbnails frustrating and gimmicky. 'DeArrow' addresses these issues in an elegant way. Very happy to purchase and support this extension
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15549769, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11803080, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by ibkindness, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fs98d, 8 months agoHappy paid user. It has improved YouTube significantly.
Note for the developer: it would be good if you could give back to the collaborators by giving them free usage of the extension. - Rated 1 out of 5by WRS13, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hexioum, 8 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by DevEd, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tim, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kenoayko, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Duckrinium, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bobby, 9 months agoEDIT: I'm curious why the developer has intentionally decide to get the extension to make changes where no changes are required - especially since it provides a worse user experience with YouTube. They haven't explained the licencing...
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People needlessly change titles and thumbnails for no reason, not to mention they do so incorrectly most of the time.
Eg.
Titles: brand and product names have a specific capitalization set by the brand and product owners but people will change it to something else. People will also randomly capitalize random words in the title.
Thumbnails: thumbnails show exactly what the video is about and they use the correct words to describe it exactly. People will change it to a random thumbnail.
If people can't get the fundamentals right, then why would i trust the extension to actually correct a misleading/clickbait title and thumbnail.
Like SponsorBlock, there is no quality control. Anyone can submit any garbage and everyone else just has to put up with it. There is no method to hide submissions by those who submit garbage.
Furthermore, why does the extension require a paid licence?! People contribute towards the extension for free. Are you seriously planning to do a rug pull on those that add value to the extension.
Sure you're giving out free licences right now, but when will that change?Developer response
posted 9 months agoResponse to edit:
The defaults are chosen in the way that I, and many others, like to use the extension. They are on the aggressive side, but that's why I made the extension so customizable. There are numerous options to turn down the aggressiveness, and you can configure all of these options per channel to be able to be aggressive with some channels, but less aggressive with others.
People have different opinions on what they like, I personally like all titles auto formatted and having all thumbnails replaced.
About the license, there will always be a free option, and all license keys are unlimited use, so you can use them on new devices and you can even share it with your friends.
I promise to never remove this, and I wouldn't want to do this anyway, as I want as many people to using DeArrow as possible, as that's how crowdsourced extensions works.
The soft-ish paywall acts as an aggressive donation barrier convincing a few people to donate, but still allowing everyone else to use the extension with all it's features just like anyone else. It is not meant to restrict who is using the extension. Only a certain amount of people need to pay to make it work.
Thanks to the paywall system, I am now earning enough money that I will be able to work on SponsorBlock and DeArrow full time when I graduate school in January and I am very much looking forward to that :)
Original Response:
I think you are misunderstanding some parts of the extension. The things you are talking about are not human submissions, but configurable automatic systems enabled by default.
By default, it auto-formats titles if no user submission exists. These are not submitted by users, but an automatic formatting system. You can change how this auto-formatting works in the options and also disable it.
By default, it shows a random screenshot from the videos from thumbnails if there is no human submission. You can also configure this in settings if you don't like that behavior, or disable thumbnail replacements altogether if that's not your thing.
Lastly, it is not possible for me to "rug-pull", as the code is open source under a copy-left license, and the database is publicly downloadable, and several other people are actively mirroring this data.
Hope that makes things clearer :) - Rated 4 out of 5by Fox Bally, 9 months agoIt's a good extension. Was able to snag the pre-paywall beta on Firefox just in time. However, on my Chrome, i was too late. I requested free access and will wait until next time when i come around to it again. But it does give me more incentive to stay on the all-privacy Firefox, where i went to after Google's announcement of ManifestV3.
Developer response
posted 9 months agoJust so you know, you can use keys on unlimited devices/browsers. You can view your license key in the options or popup.
But staying on Firefox is a very good option anyway :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Federded, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by FFUSER, 9 months agoAlthough it says it is free, I don't think it is. I requested for a free license a few days ago. I haven't received any and it still asks for payment.
Developer response
posted 9 months agoYou may have missed the text on the "request free access" prompt, but originally it was supposed to take 3 weeks. 1.2.16 changes the "request free access" time to 3 days instead as that seems like a more reasonable duration, so once you update, you should get access much quicker. - Rated 1 out of 5by Pat, 9 months agoDude, I know that being a hobbyist isn't exactly the easiest thing. But asking for payment for an addon that crowdsources youtube title changes really isn't a vibe
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14161687, 9 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Ultradood, 9 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by z3roa1m, 9 months agoFound out about this addon after SponsorBlock prompted me about it.
A great addition to the """Youtube Fix""" bundle (RYD and SponsorBlock).
Seriously, browsing Youtube is so much nicer with this installed, no longer being fished into watching useless commentary videos/drama.
P.S: I completely wiped my previous install (got a remote access trojan that i couldn't delete, thought the extension would remember me from my youtube account details), huge thanks for the key 🫡)
P.P.S also paywalling an open-source extension isn't such a good (and an effective) idea, but i get that making stuff for free out of pure enthusiasm can only go so far.Developer response
posted 9 months agoYou can copy the license key from a previous install, or email me to get a code if you didn't know to or forgot
Use this FcxeV-ea448 - Rated 1 out of 5by Xaymar, 9 months agoSuddenly asked for payment after months of being free. No thanks.
Developer response
posted 9 months agoIt is only supposed to be for new users. If you already used it, you are not meant to pay. If this did happen, if yo could click copy debug info and send me the info to dev @ajay.app that could help me try to figure out why that would happen.
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