DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails

Crowdsourcing titles and thumbnails to be descriptive and not sensational

DeArrow: End Clickbait with Community Titles

DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails is a Chrome extension leveraging the power of crowdsourcing to provide YouTube users with honest, descriptive video titles and unbiased thumbnails, reducing clickbait and sensational content. Users can purchase the extension or opt for a free version, contributing to or voting on submissions for improved accuracy and a better viewing experience. DeArrow ensures authenticity by offering user-customized title formats and random video screenshots when community content is unavailable.

Extension stats

Manifest V3
Users: 70,000+
Version: 2.0.5 (Last updated: 2025-03-12)
Creation date: 2023-06-10
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
  • alarms
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • https://sponsor.ajay.app/*
  • https://dearrow-thumb.ajay.app/*
  • https://dearrow.ajay.app/*
  • https://*.youtube.com/*
  • https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/*
Size: 1.30M
Full description: See detailed description

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Effectively reduces clickbait thumbnails and titles on YouTube.
  • Enhances the overall browsing experience on YouTube by removing obnoxious visuals.
  • Community-driven approach allows for user contributions to improve title and thumbnail quality.
  • Users report satisfaction with the extension's functionality and its impact on their viewing experience.
Cons
  • Replacement titles can often be awkward, overly generic, or unnecessarily changed.
  • Some users experience performance issues, such as slowing down YouTube significantly.
  • Users have noted the potential for losing access due to licensing and paid features, leading to frustrations about artificial restrictions.
  • Community-sourced replacements sometimes lack quality control, resulting in poorly phrased titles.
Most mentioned
  • The extension removes clickbait from titles and thumbnails.
  • Performance issues when the extension is enabled, particularly slowing down YouTube.
  • Concerns over the quality of community-submitted replacements for titles and thumbnails.
User reviews
The developer of DeArrow is so sweet! After adding the extension a window popped up asking to pay $1, but none of the payment options worked for me. So the extension gave me free unlimited access. This is not a paid extension, the developer is simply asking for donations and that is perfectly fine! Watching the video the developer made on DeArrow, you can tell this is a kind, sweet individual who's spending his time and effort to give something to all of us for FREE. To those complaining about the $1 payment, you need to chill. Luckily, the developer added a donation option right to the extension menu/popup. This is fantastic because it will allow to donate later when circumstance change. As for the extension itself, it has many features and options that you can tweak in the settings to make it suite you better. I don't understand them all, but hopefully with time I will. There's an option called "Casual Mode", which gives you even more control. I just got this extension so my rating is based on first impression. If I find faults with it, I'll update, but for now, it's perfect. And to the developer I say, "Thank you so much for all your efforts! You are AMAZING!"
by Roya, 2025-03-12

Please make this for Firefox
by Puneet Mhajan, 2025-03-07

Good idea but too aggressive. I'd use if there was some kind of tier system that makes submitters specify how clickbaity the thumbnail/title they're replacing were, so that way people could choose what level to filter out. Even the examples on the DeArrow website, which I imagine were cherry picked, have some perfectly good titles and thumbnails that got replaced for no reason. I also understand why the thumbnails work they way they do, but it just makes them so much worse. Being able to only filter out the bad clickbait would solve this so we could stop seeing the obnoxious thumbnails without the innocent ones being replaced by generic screenshots.
by Dolan Blozvich, 2025-02-27
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Extension safety

Risk impact

DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: ajay.app, youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com
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Risk likelihood

DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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