Ajay knocks it out of the park again. I actually thought about this many years ago (user-sourced way to report/remove sponsors and fix titles), so it made me very happy to see this king actually went and did it.

I buy this for $1-$5 every time I install it. Apps that fight cringe, manipulative, and degenerate behavior from places like YouTube should be encouraged and supported.

I'll happily pay my fair share for good digital content, made by developers who I respect because they don't treat their customers... or even all consumers in general, like garbage.

I'm not sure why people are bitching about the option to pay. It asks for a dollar once (or more, if you'd like), and the option to decline and use it anyway is in plain view. I've used it for free as well, and I've never seen that message again. I genuinely feel like people are overlooking the button that says "download without paying" (or whatever the exact term is).

You don't need to pay for this app. If you don't, it never asks again — minus a non-intrusive line of text at the top of some pages that is microscopic in size.

If you are so crusty about paying for content that you won't contribute to honest and useful apps that deserve it, that's a "you" problem. Coming at the devs simply for showing the OPTION to pay (with an option to decline in plain view), is a "you being a dick" problem.

You sir, have my respect, and a few extra bucks. Happy to support this app, as well as any others that fight intrusive, over-corporatized, and annoying garbage online.

By all means, get for free all the mainstream apps riddled with ads and needless monthly subscriptions (modded, patched, or torrented or whatever). I will too, obviously, as should anyone who isn't wealthy or a moron.

BUT... That being said, when an app is actually worth your time, helpful, genuine, honest... All the things mainstream apps are not... I recommend paying for it. It's a dollar.

If people want things like adblock and sponsorblock to continue to exist in the future without being crushed by corporate overlords, throw the guys who make them a buck sometime. At the very least, don't whine and shit yourself because they had the audacity to ask. Fuck, man.

A massively over-engineered solution compared to something like Clickbait Remover. Why does this require the Sponsorblock model instead of just giving you semi-random screenshots? Why all this complexity?

I don't think there's any reason other than the developer wishing to justify monetizing crowd-sourced software.

EDIT: response to developer - I would wager that the vast majority of this addon's users don't care about the title change feature (indeed, I quickly disabled it). I also don't see how Clickbait Remover predating Arrow excuses Arrow being over-engineered - if anything, that makes it worse (a simple solution was demonstrated, yet it was decided to build an incredibly convoluted alternative)

Awkward semi-paid scheme, especially for a crowdsourced project. That alone makes me not want to contribute since the dev might at an point decide to remove access.

The replaced thumbnails are very hit and miss. Replacing clickbait is one thing, but this extension just want to replace all of them indiscriminatingly, removing useful information. Quite a bit are literally just replaced with blank images or other junk...

A great addon that de-clickbaits youtube. Only downside is that after using it for some time, you realise that most of what reaches the front page is just slop. I happily paid for DeArrow as it has made the youtube experience much better for filtering good content out of the slop.

Aggressively asks for payment despite 99% of its value being derived from the community that contributes the titles/thumbnails __for free__. Imagine if Wikipedia tried to charge a monthly subscription...

Asking for donations is one thing, and you certainly deserve some money for the work you've done here, but there's a difference between politely asking for a donation and blocking somebody's path until they shove you out of the way

Like its sister extension (SponsorBlock), DeArrow changes the game when it comes to experiencing Youtube. If only were were a solution on mobile and elsewhere, too. Crowdsourced video titles means no more hyperbole, obnoxious formatting, and outright lying or baiting. And when you *do* run into those things, it feels good improving them so that others with the extension can benefit from a clearer and cleaner experience. I almost never pay or donate for extensions (though I have), but I immediately did so for DeArrow and SponsorBlock. I hope these extensions both grow in popularity, so even more videos are improved at a faster rate.

The only reason I knocked a star off of this review is that if I don't QUICKLY add the title when the input interface is open, it will always kill my entire browser (Zen Browser on Windows 11 usually). Everything -- all windows, tabs, etc -- the whole browser just hangs and the only way to get it working again is to kill the process and launch again. It happens so quickly that I have to type my title out in notepad, then copy it so that as soon as I open the input interface, I can immediately paste it in and hit the submit button.

However, if using it passively (not contributing -- just getting the benefit of better titles), it has no apparent negative impact. I would contribute more frequently if it were more stable, but it is otherwise terrific.

the thumbnail replacement is great, i don't use the title replacement. unfortunately, whenever i click on the "open submission menu" pencil icon, firefox freezes entirely and i have to kill and restart it :(

Was pretty great until submissions just stopped working entirely for a long time. Here's hoping the dev can find a solution

It'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..