Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
Review by Stoia
Rated 2 out of 5
by Stoia, 8 months agoThe idea is quite nice! Giving some method of controlling clickbait is a good idea, the issue is that the "community" contributing these titles are pedantic nerds. (I say this as a pedantic nerd myself.)
Completely fine titles are being replaced with weirdly specific descriptions, take for example this XKCD Video title:
"What if everyone jumped at once?"
is replaced by:
"What if everyone was magically teleported to the same place on earth, then all jumped at once?"
This doesnt add _anything_ other then make the title three times as long and more confusing. Its also addressed that "everyone in the same place" is meant when jumping within literally the first frame of the video.
So while its a good plugin in itself, due to reliance on Crowdsource, its absolutely not anything you can daily drive.
Completely fine titles are being replaced with weirdly specific descriptions, take for example this XKCD Video title:
"What if everyone jumped at once?"
is replaced by:
"What if everyone was magically teleported to the same place on earth, then all jumped at once?"
This doesnt add _anything_ other then make the title three times as long and more confusing. Its also addressed that "everyone in the same place" is meant when jumping within literally the first frame of the video.
So while its a good plugin in itself, due to reliance on Crowdsource, its absolutely not anything you can daily drive.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoWe do allow open ended questions under the guidelines for this type of video. But yea, some people like to submit pedantic stuff... Feel free to downvote and report so we can send them warnings or bans