DeArrow for YouTube

Gets rid of those hideous thumbnails.

So this app has been getting worse and worse lately over the past few months, even after updating my app, it is becoming increasingly harder to use with my personal settings of having a button to toggle the updated video titles over the clickbait ones. I will press multiple times, and the text will not show. It just opens up the description for the video instead and doesn’t allow me to see the non clickbait title.

Great, but not perfect for all videos. I.e., "Why I no longer [x]" titles typically stay the same, but are still clickbaity. Would be nice to integrate some basic AI rewriting to make all titles third person (as opposed to first/second) and just summarize the core argument of the video, perhaps based on transcripts. Would happily pay more for that!

i dont know how i lived before this! No clickbaint, clean interface, no cringe bloger faces and etc. THANK YOU!!

Leaving the original review below but updating to 5 stars because it is now loading thumbnails correctly on Safari on my setup. First of all, this plugin is a godsend for anyone tired of clickbaity content on YouTube. I use this plugin on every browser I have on my Mac (Firefox, Arc, Safari). I mainly use Safari but have come to notice that the plugin works flawlessly and very quickly on both Firefox and Arc, but it is not ideal on Safari. I imagine it has something to do with Webkit vs Gecko and/or Blink development stuff but I do wish it performed better on Safari. Currently, I have to enter Youtube once to load the page (where only the top row of videos will show generated thumbnails), then refresh the page to make all the other videos generate thumbnails (which sometimes changes the videos recommended as well on the home page). Then if I doom scroll far enough to get more videos to pop-up I have to refresh again for those thumbnails too (which is pointless since it puts you back to the top of the home page with new recommendations). It's still worth paying for the support but man, not ideal.

They should just call this app the Beast Face Scrub extension. Getting that guys face out of my face is practically worth the cost of this app.

You know what I’m talking about. Scrolling through YouTube and having to see beasts face in 1,000 variations and every single one of them over exaggerated and full of fake emotion. Now you can actually browse YouTube more like it’s a video library and less like a circus freak show. I never imagined I’d pay for an app to change how I perceive something but wow. It really is like lifting a weight off your shoulders when you realize how fatiguing it can be doing something so simple as scrolling through a list of videos!

This app, created by the same developer behind Sponsor Block (which I highly recommend), complements it perfectly, forming a suite of apps aimed at transforming us from passive consumers into empowered participants. While the app is relatively new and lacks an extensive collection of thumbnails and titles (although it does offer an option to randomly select a screen cap to replace the thumbnail), it holds immense promise. Much like Sponsor Block, which boasts a vast database and a dedicated community, this app seems poised for a similar future. With a one-time payment of $2 and the substantial number of videos it de-clickbates, I believe this app offers significant value. Additionally, if the developer reads this review, I think it could be smart to implement some sort of AI language processing feature to read video transcripts and auto generate titles

I bought this in a bundle with sponsorblock and originally thought it was just a neat gimmic, like the mrbeatify thing going around. I was showing this off to a friend when a video form my watch later was edited to show that it was edited by a viewer. I clicked to see the original and it turns out it was a sponsored product video instead of the documentary I thought I was getting. Came here iinstantly to rate it 5 stars, thank you DeArrow for saving me 15 minutes of time and screw you Jazza

I just wish it supported invidious instances and had a way to vote on the best thumbnail.