Crowdsourcing titles and thumbnails to be descriptive and not sensational

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December 12, 2024
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DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails Extension

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.

DeArrow is a paid (if you want) browser extension. You can purchase an unlimited-use license key for 1$. However, if you cannot, or do not want to pay, you can use the extension by clicking the \"I can't/don't want to pay\" button.

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.

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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.

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Source code: https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow

Permissions:

Access your data for youtube.com, www.youtube-nocookie.com:
- Used to modify the YouTube webpage
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "__MSG_deArrowFullName__", "short_name": "DeArrow", "version": "1.9.5", "default_locale": "en", "description": "__MSG_deArrowDescription__", "homepage_url": "https://dearrow.ajay.app", "permissions": [ "storage", "unlimitedStorage", "alarms", "scripting" ], "icons": { "16": "icons/logo-16.png", "32": "icons/logo-32.png", "64": "icons/logo-64.png", "128": "icons/logo-128.png", "256": "icons/logo-256.png", "512": "icons/logo-512.png", "1024": "icons/logo-1024.png" }, "options_ui": { "page": "options/options.html", "open_in_tab": true }, "content_scripts": [ { "world": "MAIN", "js": [ "./js/document.js" ], "matches": [ "https://*.youtube.com/*", "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/*" ], "all_frames": true, "run_at": "document_start" } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": [ "icons/refresh.svg", "icons/logo.svg", "js/document.js", "js/options.js", "js/popup.js", "popup.css", "shared.css", "help.html", "help.css", "icons/logo-16.png", "icons/logo-32.png", "icons/logo-64.png", "icons/logo-128.png", "icons/logo-256.png", "icons/logo-2r.svg" ], "matches": [ "" ] } ], "host_permissions": [ "https://sponsor.ajay.app/*", "https://dearrow-thumb.ajay.app/*", "https://dearrow.ajay.app/*", "https://*.youtube.com/*", "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/*" ], "action": { "default_title": "DeArrow", "default_popup": "popup.html", "default_icon": { "16": "icons/logo-16.png", "32": "icons/logo-32.png", "64": "icons/logo-64.png", "128": "icons/logo-128.png" }, "theme_icons": [ { "light": "icons/logo-16.png", "dark": "icons/logo-16.png", "size": 16 }, { "light": "icons/logo-32.png", "dark": "icons/logo-32.png", "size": 32 }, { "light": "icons/logo-64.png", "dark": "icons/logo-64.png", "size": 64 }, { "light": "icons/logo-128.png", "dark": "icons/logo-128.png", "size": 128 }, { "light": "icons/logo-256.png", "dark": "icons/logo-256.png", "size": 256 }, { "light": "icons/logo-512.png", "dark": "icons/logo-512.png", "size": 512 }, { "light": "icons/logo-1024.png", "dark": "icons/logo-1024.png", "size": 1024 } ] }, "background": { "service_worker": "./js/background.js" }, "manifest_version": 3}
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User reviews

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lowpoly brain (ID: 000000347586774f) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 05/20/2024 So, it is free or what? "You are successfully registered for free access. You will be notified when free access is granted." Still waiting...

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Ty S (ID: 0000004648e56e36) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/09/2023 great extension. I've had it for a while and ngl I absolutely love it. only problem is that whenever I go to submit a new title or thumbnail, the title never actually saves/updates and just use's the original one, and the thumbnails keep "failing to render". whatever that means. its still useful cause I can see what others have changed the videos to, but its kind of pointless since I cant seem to get it to work myself. besides those two things I think whoever made this did a good job. thank you.

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Lumi (ID: 000000b1191d6328) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/09/2023 Chill guys, it's literally just $1 to support the developer (who also created Sponsorblock and definitely deserves it), and to get a whole better experience on youtube forever, these things cost money to run. If you can't/don't want to pay you can still contact him and get the thing for free.

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Hexioum (ID: 000000052d8f3996) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/04/2023 Very useful. Really helps to understand the subject of videos before clicking and wasting time to get to the point.

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Samuel (ID: 000000717dfb41b1) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/03/2023 The most useful tool for YouTube to filter out the constant clickbait that there is now