DeArrow breaks when referrer disabled on YouTube - blank thumbnails and titles

[quietlystorming]

I noticed this issue when using Chameleon, a privacy-enhancing addon which aims to hinder browser fingerprinting. It does this by changing the browser/device profile on a timer.

When both are enabled, DeArrow works fine when YouTube is first accessed during a session. However, after the browser profile changes, thumbnails on all subsequent pages are blank. Titles seem unaffected on all pages except on the Videos page of any channel - those are now blank as well. This was observed despite YouTube being whitelisted in Chameleon. I tinkered around and realized it was because of the setting to disable the referrer in the header. Once that was enabled, and then DeArrow was disabled and re-enabled, DeArrow started working again.

Is this behavior absolutely necessary? Can DeArrow work without having the referrer enabled?

[ajayyy]

I am not able to reproduce this issue myself. Everything is working for me