Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
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Rated 4 out of 5
by display name, 2 years agoGreat idea. Though I am surprised that Tom Scott's channel was picked as a demonstration, as he is not a particularly bad offender in this respect, to the point where I personally do not mind having his original thumbnails and titles.
If you're aiming at something clickbaity, yet still informative enough to be worth spending time on redacting, maybe show, I dunno, LegalEagle? TLDR News? Linus Tech Tips? Karl Jobst?
If you're aiming at something clickbaity, yet still informative enough to be worth spending time on redacting, maybe show, I dunno, LegalEagle? TLDR News? Linus Tech Tips? Karl Jobst?
Developer response
posted 2 years agoVery recently, Tom Scott and CGP Grey have started going through their entire backlog and changing titles and thumbnails to be more attention grabbing and vague. Channels doing things like this are a heavy inspiration for this extension.
It's not just the Linus Tech Tips or the Mr Beasts of the world doing algorithm optimized titles and thumbnails now. Even really great channels like Tom Scott, CGP Grey, and Kurzgesagt are falling for the trap now.
And I don't blame them! That's what's needed to survive on the platform these days. It's a race to the bottom.
DeArrow hopes to solve this. DeArrow puts everyone on a level playing field. There is no race to the bottom since no one is allowed to be algorithmically optimized. It pauses the race, and let's the true best videos rise to the top.
It's not just the Linus Tech Tips or the Mr Beasts of the world doing algorithm optimized titles and thumbnails now. Even really great channels like Tom Scott, CGP Grey, and Kurzgesagt are falling for the trap now.
And I don't blame them! That's what's needed to survive on the platform these days. It's a race to the bottom.
DeArrow hopes to solve this. DeArrow puts everyone on a level playing field. There is no race to the bottom since no one is allowed to be algorithmically optimized. It pauses the race, and let's the true best videos rise to the top.
300 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Silent Spud, 2 days agoWas pretty great until submissions just stopped working entirely for a long time. Here's hoping the dev can find a solution
- Rated 5 out of 5by klementine des pêches, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SimoX9, 14 days agoIt's paid, there is no option to use it free, the description is lying, best you get is 'free' 6 hours before it lockes you from using it..
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18177036, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by rafafunt, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Imprest, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15998822, a month agoWeird plug in that doesn't really work until you figure out if the author wants to be paid or not. It's only $1 (I think), and offers the option of just either having a trial or using it for free, but neither of the last options worked.
I'm sure this is a great idea, but I couldn't get it to work to check if I liked it. Just make it paid for or not please, I don't want to have to faff about trying to get it to work. - Rated 5 out of 5by ramiel, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Morgoz, a month agoWorks great with English content however since it is crowdsourced when it's not popular in certain countries or certain languages it's really hard to find an usage. Still, a great extension for English YouTube videos.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15145534, a month agoJust miss a miscellaneous tab (like sponsorblock has) where we can ad other domains to use it (invidious). But works great with youtube.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tanh, a month agoYouTube is a steaming pile of crap unfit for human consumption without DeArrow and SponsorBlock (and uBlock Origin).
- Rated 2 out of 5by asid, 2 months agofrustrating. most titles / thumbnails are either verbose / useless or don't change at all. picking titles or thumbnails (both of which you have to do after already clicking on the video) does nothing 90% of the time and reverts after it does work, probably because majority vote matters more than your own, rather than just being the default used.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18841606, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18730969, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by RaphGL, 2 months agoAwesome, this and sponsorblock are literally making youtube less of a clickbait hellscape
Only gave 4 stars because it lacks the community sponsorblock has and the UI is a bit finicky, it definitely needs to be improved. Once the community is there, this extension will be much more useful since we can better rely on the voting system and be able to overwrite most videos out there more easily. - Rated 5 out of 5by baller, 2 months agoAjay my man, made Dearrow 100% free without having to beg via email for russians :heart:
- Rated 5 out of 5by potato, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SDS, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ivan, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15028866, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15148485, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14272180, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18794785, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by blackrose, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by James, 3 months agoA great add-on if you dont want a click bait title and thumbnail