This is probably the most well articulated and researched criticism of DeArrow I've seen, so thanks for taking the time to do it and actually test it out!

At the same time, I do find myself clicking the button in the extension to see the original title/thumbnail often to check out what it is for that tone reason. Especially when someone has submitted a title that would be better on a scientific paper than a YouTube video

More and more channels where I liked watching the videos themselves used the same aggressive style titles and thumbnails (and I don't fault them for doing that). Many of these channels were even going through their entire back catalogue and changing all titles and thumbnails

While I do agree sometimes the aggressive titles and thumbnails can help you weed out the aggressive channels to avoid, the reason why I made the extension is because I felt that correlation fading away.

The more time since I released DeArrow and the more I hear people's reactions to the extension, the more I've realized that it is true that there is no "best" title, just different subjective opinions

If you'd like to support sponsorblock development, you can do so here: https://sponsor.ajay.app/donate/

A more easy to use channel skip profile system is still coming in the future, but for now you can now make some channel specific settings with advanced skip options as well

do not remove the fun tangents!

the whole point of the tangent category in sponsorblock is to allow the small number of people who want to skip them to skip them while letting the creator keep them in for everyone else

what this commenter said is very dumb

it is today and will remain the default mode, but there will now also be a casual mode.

More info: https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/DeArrow/Casual_mode

want something more fun? ashleygraves.eu/dearrow/

full event filler