Makes YouTube almost unusable: adds a considerable delay to every UI interaction. For example pausing or resuming a video takes 5-20 seconds.

This extension no longer works with Firefox >133. The popup box that asks you to confirm that you are adhering to the 3 main rules is just a blank black box.

When it used to work - 5 stars

To devs reply. Yes, I understand how it is SUPPOSED to work, because it USED to work in the manner you describe. But now I just get a blank black box where the rules SHOULD be

Just had today's Formula 1 race spoiled because DeArrow put the race results as the thumbnail for the race highlights vid instead of leaving the original alone. Never using this garbage again.

I feel that this goes way too overboard with its definition of clickbait and ends up compromising the artistic intent of some channels. I specifically noticed this on ahoy's channel, where the movie poster like thumbnails and simple names were replaced with lesser quality images and verbose titles. The p90 one specifically is a good example. I could go through and edit the channel specific settings for channels I already know and like, but I fear I could then miss out on channels I have not seen before are. I feel like I would like this extension if there was maybe an option for affecting purely egregious forms of clickbait rather than almost anything that seems eye catching to someone.

A 6-hour trial? This is ridiculous! I installed it, came back the next day to test it, and it says my trial expired. Now I have to wait for approval for free access? This is so unprofessional. Making it free from the start with an option for payment later would be a better approach. I'm really fed up with all the paywalls on Firefox extensions recently! Hopefully, Mozilla will sort out this marketing mess soon!

Asks for payment right away

what the addon description purposefully omits, is the crucial fact that you cannot in fact use the addon at all, even if you cannot pay. i clicked that option and its still asking me to pay, or wait for a multitude of hours. What is the reason for this other than to annoy and coerce the user? absolute garbage and greed.

KNOW BEFORE BUYING:

Don't expect a name to change. In practice, there was a 1% or less change in the names of videos I watched. Enabling DeArrow mostly changed capitalization.

Re-titles are user-submitted only. There will be NO title change unless a user has submitted one.

doesn't work, random thumbnails are showing up completely unchanged. shame that this extension used to work and is now utterly broken

omg all the video thumbnails just flicker non stop and slows/freezes the whole browser

Renaming clickbait titles is a good idea, but in practice too many perfectly fine titles are changed to something stupid for no reason. I can't think of a good way to fix this, so I'm going to stop using DeArrow.

why do we have to pay for less clickbait :skull:

I like the idea but it makes youtube loading sooooo slow, even with extensions like unhook that hides videos from ever being visible, this extension is not compatible

EDIT: dev response is wrong, i understand what dearrow is, i read the description of the addon before i paid for it LOL. the problem is that it sucks at doing what it says it does for fundamental reasons.

clickbait = "sensational and unappealing packaging (the titles and thumbnails)" and tons of clickbait thumbnails and titles get through dearrow because this addon requires users of an addon who're allergic to clickbait already to willingly submit themselves to enduring low quality content in order to submit a new relevant title and thumbnail and remove said clickbait with dearrow. it just won't happen and prevents the addon from working as intended

dev, i recommend removing the crowdsourcing element of this addon *or* merely asking for donations instead of outright payment. you can't do both and you can't expect people to pay you to do work for you. a refund is actually kind of a ridiculous thing to offer. you want me to hop in your email to beg for a dollar? get real LOL. when you ask for payment you invite criticism and a refund is not relevant.

original review below --------------------------------------

I paid a dollar for this app expecting to remove the clickbait from my Youtube experience but instead most of the actual clickbait (content farm videos with 1mil+ views) continue to appear unaltered while the titles from any even mildly popular genuine video creator get stripped of all creativity and even narratively spoiled in some cases.

the problem is fundamental due to the fact that this app is crowdsourced and because most of the actual clickbait is from channels that are so low quality that even the users of this app don't want to put in the effort to fix it. meanwhile the videos people actually put effort into get neutered because some geek thought the title wasn't definitionally accurate enough.

that's another thing, why are we paying to crowdsource our work? i only realized i was paying to work after i forked it over so shame on me i guess but it certainly left a slimy taste in my mouth afterwards.

The page where you can supposedly use it for free is broken due to a conflict with NoScript, and it can't be turned off for that page. Also, the addon page is incredibly misleading, with no indication of being a paid extension anywhere in the description (and no, the "Some features require payment" text is not enough).