Reviews for DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube by Ajay (SponsorBlock)
198 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12567334, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ethan Olson, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fantoski, a year agoGenuinely a life changer, I don't see myself using YouTube without it, and there's a surprisingly great amount of community-generated titles and thumbnails available.
- Rated 5 out of 5by fishy, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mewier, a year agoTried it for a couple of days and ended up buying it. It's a bit slow when loading the thumbnails, when opening my subscriptions it takes about 6 seconds for everything to load. But it's worth it, I love it, it removes the sensationalism.
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheCraiggers, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jakk, a year agoFantastic, completely non-intrusive. It's nice actually knowing what certain videos are going to be about before clicking them.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14425985, a year agoWorth the dollar. When videos are missing submissions I feel compelled to add one.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14230878, a year agoThis makes YouTube bearable. I miss it when I'm on mobile.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18493127, a year agoThis add-on makes Youtube seem so dull.
And that's a good thing.
Only issues I can see is that I keep checking the original titles out of curiosity (which is my own fault) and that the page lagged severely when I tested it on Mr. Beast's channel (which was rather amusing). - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18100227, a year agoImmediately my YouTube homepage became much easier to the eye, I'm also way less prone to click on stuff I really wouldn't have clicked otherwise (which I bet is exactly the purpose of this).
I like it so much more, in a sense the thumbnails become a little insipid, which is something one has to unlearn, but overall this extension brings unfathomed peace.
I think that acronyms should remain unchanged, since its easier to comprehend what's the title all about; also looks better, specially on team names and such.
Thank you very much. I'm an unpaid user, so thank you again and will send my grain of sand once I'm able to.
Thanks again. As an avid YouTube user, I really recommend this extension.
Check other extensions such as SponsorBlock, Enchancer for YouTube, Return YouTube Dislike and YouTube Short Block, all of which I use. - Rated 5 out of 5by Leo7K, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by geeknik, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shad, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sengonul35, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dikunav, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kloassie, a year agoWorks like a charm. I have the free 'version' bc I don't have a credit card (no need) and no paypal (don't trust pp), but when I find a suitable way to donate, I will. Anyways, I'd like an option to personally whitelist channels for showing original thumbnails - eg music channels that continuously show babes as thumbnails, I don't mind those polluting my view :-P
Developer response
posted a year agoCheck out the settings and "channel allowlist" feature. You can make a custom profile with whatever settings you want for specific subsets of channels. - Rated 5 out of 5by schammelam, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17476401, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bee, a year agoThis 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.Developer response
posted a year ago> 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.
Hmm, maybe that is because of a new YouTube layout. I'll look into it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Frans, a year ago