DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
Crowdsourcing titles and thumbnails to be descriptive and not sensational
Total ratings
4.00
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Effective in reducing clickbait titles and thumbnails on YouTube
- Improves the overall browsing experience by making recommendations/searches more relaxing
- Created by a reputable developer (SponsorBlock dev)
- Crowd-sourced titles help combat misleading content
- Decent and good faith re-titling process that may improve content scouring
Cons
- Causes significant delay in YouTube interactions (5-20 seconds)
- Relies heavily on crowd-sourcing, leading to inconsistent title changes
- Requires multiple confirmations to modify titles, which is cumbersome
- May degrade the quality of good titles into generic ones
- Can cause YouTube thumbnails to appear grayed out or broken
Most mentioned
- Delays in UI interactions
- Crowd-sourced titles leading to inconsistencies
- Multiple confirmation steps to submit title changes
- Improvement of clickbait handling
- Issues with thumbnails appearing as grayed out boxes
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Recent rating average:
3.70
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-22 | James | | A great add-on if you dont want a click bait title and thumbnail |
| 2025-01-20 | Gaming4 | | This is a cool extension, dont find it too useful for the stuff I've curated for my feed though. Could be cool if you could filter out music videos thumbnails, so that you can see the original ones, other than that this works great. |
| 2025-01-16 | yowidin | | Makes YouTube almost unusable: adds a considerable delay to every UI interaction. For example pausing or resuming a video takes 5-20 seconds. |
| 2025-01-15 | Alan | | |
| 2025-01-15 | SRS | | Its a good add-on (as expected from Sponsorblock dev), however i believe it relies a bit too much on crowd sourcing In my opinion, it should use one of those AI websites which summaries a youtube and do it for the titles. |
| 2025-01-13 | Th4t | | |
| 2025-01-09 | Ad-Free Life | | This is an interesting compromise. I think I'll keep using it, because it makes the recommendations/searches a lot more relaxing to look at. But the downside is making videos seem better than they are, because if the title and thumbnail are bad, the video itself probably is too, and this hides that signal. I haven't been using it all that long and there's already been a couple times when I've really hated a video, then looked at the original title and thumbnail and realised that I wouldn't have clicked on it if I wasn't using DeArrow. It does prevent videos from lying about their contents in the title, so it may well save time overall. There's a deep problem with Youtube that is probably impossible to patch over with a browser extension, and this is still a useful tool. |
| 2025-01-07 | Azarilh | | |
| 2024-12-31 | dph121 | | My licence key is ACNq4-7d5ea, hopefully it is reusable. |
| 2024-12-24 | EliteCanadian | | I created an account with Firefox in order to review this outstanding extension. Ajay, thank you for helping with the overwhelming lack of ethics within "creators" My favorite part (and the main reason for this review) is that it was a LTT thumbnail that made me reinstall this, Linus's thumbnails are the biggest clickbait, but to see LTT featured on this MAIN SHAMING PAGE, love it. Highly recommended to anyone that's sick and tired of "creators" abusing their followers. |
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