DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube

Crowdsourcing titles and thumbnails to be descriptive and not sensational

Total ratings for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube

4.01 (Rating count: 200)

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Pros

Improves YouTube user experience by reducing clickbait thumbnails and titles
Pricing of only $1 is reasonable for the service provided
Activation works seamlessly across multiple devices

Cons

User-submitted title changes can sometimes be unnecessary or poorly thought out
Some users experience issues with random/unwanted thumbnails appearing
Enforcement of American English title case can be a drawback for non-English titles

Most mentioned

Improvement of YouTube user experience by reducing clickbait
Pricing at $1
Issues with user-submitted title changes

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All time rating average: 4.01

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Date	Author	Comment
2024-05-15	schammelam
2024-05-15	FF user 17083219	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.
2024-05-09	Bakaba
2024-05-08	Firefox user 17476401
2024-05-07	Speedy	It's a fine extension, it does what it is supposed to do however the concept gets ruined by moronic title edits made by idiots. So often I see fine, non-problematic titles being replaced with a non-descriptive mess. Important/valuable information gets removed for the sake of being changed, and I end up thinking "who thought this edit would be a good idea?" so often. For example, this video: "BETA SQUAD MAFIA GAME FT DEJI (CHILLI FORFEIT)" gets changed to: "Mafia E11" whereas a better title would be: "Beta Squad: Mafia E11 ft. Deji" Here's another stupid change on a video from Techquickie: Original: "Why do speakers hiss?" Replaced: "speaker Noise: Hiss and Hum" I try using the voting feature to downvote the awful new titles / I try to submit my own but I have no idea if it does anything as I never see anything change. The thumbs up/down emoji does a twirl and there's no indication if it did anything or what it does. This panel really needs some improvement.
2024-05-07	Firefox user 18403227	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.
2024-05-06	Bee	This makes YouTube an infinitely better user experience! I really appreciate the lack of visual clutter all the loud thumbnails cause especially. It does make my subscriptions & home page load a little more slowly, but that's well worth it in my opinion. For some channels I'm subscribed to (like crochet/craft channels), I found I missed the thumbnails because those show the finished craft product, thankfully it was easy to whitelist those. I did also change the default thumbnail replacement from "random" to "auto-generated by YouTube", which led to less awkward half-blink faces in my feed. Once activated, the extension immediately worked on all my devices where I'm logged in to Firefox, and I was able to re-use the activation code on a shared family device where I am not logged in on my Firefox account. Overall, a great experience and well worth the 1 euro. One minor negative is that in some interfaces (like browsing a channel's videos) the blue logo button doesn't work to view the original title/thumbnail, because it will open the video link instead.
2024-05-06	Inbydev	Best extension and dollar spent, truly amazing
2024-05-05	Chloe	doesn't work, random thumbnails are showing up completely unchanged. shame that this extension used to work and is now utterly broken
2024-05-04	Barrett Ray	Nice extension. Docked a couple stars because the guideline to capitalize replacement titles like "a sentence" is ridiculous and looks horrible. Please add an option to convert _only_ the replacement titles into "Title Case." Otherwise, normal titles containing phrases like "ABC" or "NASA" become "Abc" and "Nasa." On the other hand, an option to make Title Case only affect lowercase words would be great. Happy to send in a PR. Just let me know.

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