DeArrow for YouTube 2.3.9 - App Store

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About DeArrow for YouTube

DeArrow is a browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal of DeArrow is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. Titles can be any arbitrary text. Thumbnails are...

DeArrow is a browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal of DeArrow is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. Titles can be any arbitrary text. Thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps in the video. These are user submitted and voted on. By default, if there are no submissions, it will format the original title to the user-specified format, and set a screenshot from a random timestamp as the thumbnail. This can be configured in the options to disable formatting, or show the original thumbnail by default. If the original thumbnail is actually good, you can still vote for it in the submission menu, and then it will act like a submission. No more dealing with clickbait, arrows, or annoying faces. Users can submit better titles and thumbnails for each video and vote on them. How does DeArrow differ from Clickbait Remover for YouTube? - Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails - When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized. - When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment. --- Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow Permissions: Access your data for youtube.com, www.youtube-nocookie.com: - Used to modify the YouTube webpage This add-on may also **ask*" to access data for any website: - You can add your own instances of 3rd party YouTube front-ends, and it will ask for permission to modify each site you add - It will never ask for permission for all sites, only the sites you request - Invidious support is not finished at the moment

Version History - Fix thumbnail replacements on /live/ pages - Fix thumbnail replacements when resizing the page - Add compatibility with mr beastify and similar extensions 2.3.9 Jun 10 - Support homepage on latest mobile YouTube - Fix "Capitalize words" format in some cases not capitalizing 2.3.8 May 29 - Fix swap on hover swapping in the wrong direction with certain channel override settings - Fix title and thumbnail replacements for changes in on mobile YouTube - Fix wrong colour for submission menu text in light mode sometimes 2.3.7 May 25 - Fix text colour in submission menu - Support new embeds 2.3.6 May 18 Another YouTube change... It seems they decided to change one class at a time when switching formats, but I think this is the last one they can change for this update... Also fixes replacements on the mobile site 2.3.5 Apr 11 Fix titles and thumbnails not being replaced due to another YouTube change 2.3.4 Apr 8 Fix title replacement with latest YouTube change 2.3.3 Apr 8 Add button to add a channel to channel overrides and do some configuration from the video page 2.3.2 Mar 20 - Improve channel lookups for overrides (thanks @mini-bomba ) - Fix fullscreen title not changing - Fix title on embeds - Add support for videoIDs in channel overrides - Fix submission panel not appearing with Unhook extension - Fix blank thumbnails sometimes at the top of the recommended section - Fix thumbnail rendering for recommendations at the end of the video 2.3 Mar 7 Significantly improve performance and memory usage on pages with lots of thumbnails 2.2.3 Jan 4 - Compatibility with Vorapis V3 extension - Fix compatibility with yt anti-translate - Fix some title rendering on mobile youtube - Adjust channel overrides name box size - Fix music mix thumbnail rendering - Update formatting allowlist 2.2.1 12/04/2025 - Add a more aggressive method to try to fix extra edit button issue - Support new end screen - Fix show original button layout on new YouTube layout - Make title case detector less sensitive - Fix compound words with one letter messing with sentence case conversion - Fix source maps (thanks @mini-bomba ) 2.1.11 10/15/2025 - Improve error handling (thanks @mini-bomba) - Add auto-update to Firefox beta build (thanks @mini-bomba) - Fix timestamp not appearing on thumbnails on mobile YouTube - Don't capitalize names of subreddits (thanks @lylythechosenone ) 2.1.10 09/19/2025 YouTube made another change, this time changing both the title and thumbnail elements so both replacements break Also: Add some more fancy text conversions (thanks @SuperStormer ) 2.1.8 08/29/2025 - Fix thumbnails appearing blank on new YouTube layout - Add some new acronyms to the allowed word list (thanks @loftyinclination ) 2.1.7 08/22/2025 - Add option to not format casual mode titles - Fix less than signs in titles showing the wrong symbol - Add option to only format original titles - Fix blank thumbnails on mobile - Fix channel names hidden in search on mobile - Add support for new shorts type in search results on mobile - Add support for new endscreen type that recommends livestreams - Fix look of mixes with custom thumbnails 2.1.6 08/21/2025 - Fix casual mode not working in recommendations, homepage or search results 2.1.5 07/22/2025 - Share channel info fetching with SponsorBlock if also installed - Fix related videos becoming blank - Support new video player layout 2.1.4 06/23/2025 - Speed up thumbnail requests - cut request time in half by skipping cors options request - Add option to show original on hover of entire video card - Fix titles not being replaced when original title is blank - Make sure no duplicate edit buttons can appear - Fix casual mode causing casing changes to not be used - Don't show onboarding when defaults have been changed already 2.1 05/13/2025 Update translations 2.0.9 04/28/2025 - Remove optional permissions in safari for now due to safari bug - This may break custom server urls for some people on Safari, but the bug is making the extension unusable on Safari due to permission prompts appearing on many websites when they should not (since they are optional permissions, they should only appear when then extension asks for them) - https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290508 - Add some more improvements for reliability of thumbnail replacing logic to avoid thumbnails getting hidden due to YouTube page changes 2.0.8 04/01/2025 - Fix thumbnail's being blank on new a/b tested YouTube layout - Add new German notification format - Fix YouTube TV breakage 2.0.7 03/21/2025 Fix dark mode icon on iOS 2.0.6 03/11/2025 - Fix title and thumbnail replacements on /live/ links which many people are now being redirected too - Fix race condition making original thumbnails sometimes show when they shouldn't - Fix duplicate thumbnail renders on some videos 2.0.5 03/10/2025 Last update included an old version by accident, the actual updated is in this release - Fix only show casual icon for custom title setting - Fix casual mode title change check - Was causing many videos with casual mode votes to still show the dearrow title - Fix error about this.button being undefined - Fix document script player client fetching 2.0.4 03/05/2025

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Previous Versions

Here you can find the changelog of DeArrow for YouTube since it was posted on our website on 2023-11-11 16:48:38. The latest version is 2.3.9 and it was updated on 2026-10-14 11:37:44. See below the changes in each version.

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