DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails

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Utilities youtube clickbait thumbnails titles productivity customization video content

Quick Look

DeArrow enhances your YouTube viewing experience by replacing sensationalized titles and thumbnails with user-submitted, descriptive alternatives.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

YouTube users who want to avoid clickbait and see more accurate content.

Key Features

→ Crowdsourced titles and thumbnails
→ Reduces sensationalism and clickbait
→ Customizable title formatting
→ Randomized, non-clickbait thumbnail generation

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Mostly Positive

Users generally appreciate DeArrow for its effectiveness in combating YouTube clickbait with crowdsourced titles and thumbnails, though some minor issues or feature requests exist.

Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.

What Users Love

✓ Effectively removes clickbait titles and thumbnails.
✓ Crowdsourced system provides better, more accurate content.
✓ Customizable options for title formatting and default thumbnail behavior.

Points to Consider

× Occasional issues with extension functionality.
× Some users desire more advanced customization or community features.

Official Description

From the Developer

Crowdsourcing titles and thumbnails to be descriptive and not sensational

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.

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: