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Ajay Ramachandran
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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 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.
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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
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
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
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.5.11
Last updated on Mar 22, 2024
Old Versions
- Fix behavior of "Display show original button for auto-formatted titles" setting behavior
- Always capitalize last word in title case
- Change how fetch is made to make sure to show unverified submissions in voting box
- Make UI follow chosen title casing style
- Remove submissions from stored unsubmitted list when downvoted
- Fix importing options in options page not working
- Always capitalize last word in title case
- Change how fetch is made to make sure to show unverified submissions in voting box
- Make UI follow chosen title casing style
- Remove submissions from stored unsubmitted list when downvoted
- Fix importing options in options page not working
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Version History
1.5.11
Mar 22, 2024
- Fix behavior of "Display show original button for auto-formatted titles" setting behavior
- Always capitalize last word in title case
- Change how fetch is made to make sure to show unverified submissions in voting box
- Make UI follow chosen title casing style
- Remove submissions from stored unsubmitted list when downvoted
- Fix importing options in options page not working
- Always capitalize last word in title case
- Change how fetch is made to make sure to show unverified submissions in voting box
- Make UI follow chosen title casing style
- Remove submissions from stored unsubmitted list when downvoted
- Fix importing options in options page not working
1.5.8
Mar 6, 2024
- Add fallback method for listen for new thumbnails appearing
- Should fix issue on Safari where sometimes titles and thumbnails are blank until a refresh
- Should fix issue on Safari where sometimes titles and thumbnails are blank until a refresh
1.5.7
Mar 4, 2024
Fix submission menu on layout with description on right
1.5.5
Feb 28, 2024
- Fix layout issues on newer YouTube layout with description on right
- Add support for related videos in the description
- Submission thumbnail improvements, and fix rendering on Firefox
- Add more words to formatter allowlist
- Prevent storage writing rate limits from being hit
- Fix issue causing extension to break when running with latest version of BlockTube (version 0.4.1)
- Add support for related videos in the description
- Submission thumbnail improvements, and fix rendering on Firefox
- Add more words to formatter allowlist
- Prevent storage writing rate limits from being hit
- Fix issue causing extension to break when running with latest version of BlockTube (version 0.4.1)
1.5.2
Jan 31, 2024
- Fix vote icons not appearing in light theme
- Fix original thumbnail votes on livestreams not working
- Fix blank titles not showing custom title
- Fix original thumbnail votes on livestreams not working
- Fix blank titles not showing custom title
1.5
Jan 26, 2024
- Add downvotes, and act as vip option
- Add new generated thumbnail for upcoming videos if "random thumbnails" are enabled
- Add support for generated random thumbnails on livestreams
- Better handle difference in random thumbnail timestamps
- Title formatter updates (thanks @SuperStormer )
- Add compatibility with Tube Archivist extension (needs changes on their end to be merged as well)
- Fix unsubmitted titles not being deleted when pressing reset on a title
- Add new generated thumbnail for upcoming videos if "random thumbnails" are enabled
- Add support for generated random thumbnails on livestreams
- Better handle difference in random thumbnail timestamps
- Title formatter updates (thanks @SuperStormer )
- Add compatibility with Tube Archivist extension (needs changes on their end to be merged as well)
- Fix unsubmitted titles not being deleted when pressing reset on a title
1.4
Jan 17, 2024
- Add a way to import/export local storage
- Update title formatting word list
- When "Show original on hover" is enabled, the title text for the show original button changes to the title of the video to make it easier to see longer video title
- Fix age restricted videos sometimes not falling back to autogenerated thumbnails
- Improve performance for fallback to "random time" by using YouTube autogenerated thumbnails if the thumbnail cache is not available in these cases
- Most useful on older/unpopular videos
- Should fix issues where playback stutters on first load of these videos
- Update title formatting word list
- When "Show original on hover" is enabled, the title text for the show original button changes to the title of the video to make it easier to see longer video title
- Fix age restricted videos sometimes not falling back to autogenerated thumbnails
- Improve performance for fallback to "random time" by using YouTube autogenerated thumbnails if the thumbnail cache is not available in these cases
- Most useful on older/unpopular videos
- Should fix issues where playback stutters on first load of these videos
1.3
Dec 21, 2023
- Title formatting changes
- Update word lists
- Fix hyphenated words counting as "custom capitalization"
- Remove force don't format from non-smart formatters
- Add option to use capital case for non english titles
- Speed up title fetching in certain cases
- Fix clip page breaking extension
- Fix transparent background for mixes creating weird look
- Fix duation of videos not appearing on mobile YouTube
- Fix empty thumbnails causing errors when failing to remove ab thumbnail
- Fix submit button not working when title is a zero width space
- Fix a special case where some YouTube featured videos are linked as playlists even though they display a normal video title
- Add warning about out of date browsers
- Add warning about when extension sync storage is disabled
- Make hover preview work for shorts on mobile
- Fixes for local thumbnail generation
- Add error message when license key invalid
- Fix invisible license key on light mode
- Update word lists
- Fix hyphenated words counting as "custom capitalization"
- Remove force don't format from non-smart formatters
- Add option to use capital case for non english titles
- Speed up title fetching in certain cases
- Fix clip page breaking extension
- Fix transparent background for mixes creating weird look
- Fix duation of videos not appearing on mobile YouTube
- Fix empty thumbnails causing errors when failing to remove ab thumbnail
- Fix submit button not working when title is a zero width space
- Fix a special case where some YouTube featured videos are linked as playlists even though they display a normal video title
- Add warning about out of date browsers
- Add warning about when extension sync storage is disabled
- Make hover preview work for shorts on mobile
- Fixes for local thumbnail generation
- Add error message when license key invalid
- Fix invisible license key on light mode
1.2.24
Dec 14, 2023
Add option to use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails
Falls back to these when generation fails if random time thumbnails are selected
Move guidelines button higher up
Support preview when hovering the up next button
Fix title not changing on Cytube and watchtogether
Title formatter changes:
Fix "vs." thinking it's at the end of a sentence
Fix errored thumbnail images sometimes displaying when they should not be
Remove unnecessary check related to incognito support
Add option to never use A/B tested thumbnails
Add warning when voting for the original thumbnail during an a/b thumbnail test
Allow Orion browser on iPad to bypass activation screen
Fix video titles in playlist boxes in search being hidden
They are unmodified though
Title formatting changes:
Add back 4 letter words to title case not capitalized
Not part of APA, but still pretty standard
Add another type of dash as delimiter
Add acronym to allowlist
Fix background color of mixes on homepage when there is a 4:3 custom thumbnail
Mixes now display slabs in the background that conflict the transparent background
Remove over and list from lower case words in title case
Falls back to these when generation fails if random time thumbnails are selected
Move guidelines button higher up
Support preview when hovering the up next button
Fix title not changing on Cytube and watchtogether
Title formatter changes:
Fix "vs." thinking it's at the end of a sentence
Fix errored thumbnail images sometimes displaying when they should not be
Remove unnecessary check related to incognito support
Add option to never use A/B tested thumbnails
Add warning when voting for the original thumbnail during an a/b thumbnail test
Allow Orion browser on iPad to bypass activation screen
Fix video titles in playlist boxes in search being hidden
They are unmodified though
Title formatting changes:
Add back 4 letter words to title case not capitalized
Not part of APA, but still pretty standard
Add another type of dash as delimiter
Add acronym to allowlist
Fix background color of mixes on homepage when there is a 4:3 custom thumbnail
Mixes now display slabs in the background that conflict the transparent background
Remove over and list from lower case words in title case
1.2.19
Oct 2, 2023
- Don't replace thumbnails on movies due to DRM preventing screenshots from being generated
- Fix title formatting on movies
- Don't allow random screenshots at the end of the video if no SponsorBlock endcards exist
- Title formatting changes:
- Remove "from" and "with" from title case lower case words, according to APA standard
- Fix acronyms losing last dot if at end of sentence
- Update word allowlist
- Change title case trusting threshold
- Fix title formatting on movies
- Don't allow random screenshots at the end of the video if no SponsorBlock endcards exist
- Title formatting changes:
- Remove "from" and "with" from title case lower case words, according to APA standard
- Fix acronyms losing last dot if at end of sentence
- Update word allowlist
- Change title case trusting threshold
1.2.18
Sep 18, 2023
- Prevent refreshes from triggering too often, improves performance
- Fix badge moving on channel search results
- Title formatter changes:
- Update blacklist and allowlist
- If there are just formatting changes, and the user doesn't enable them, don't use user submitted titles
- Fix alignment of show original button on endcards
- Fix max title lines option text box being too small
- Improve speeds of some actions when some channel allowlists are enabled
- Fix grey background on 4:3 thumbnails on the homepage
- Add more words to the acronym blocklist
- Another fix preventing the words "Original title" from being submitted by accident
- Fix badge moving on channel search results
- Title formatter changes:
- Update blacklist and allowlist
- If there are just formatting changes, and the user doesn't enable them, don't use user submitted titles
- Fix alignment of show original button on endcards
- Fix max title lines option text box being too small
- Improve speeds of some actions when some channel allowlists are enabled
- Fix grey background on 4:3 thumbnails on the homepage
- Add more words to the acronym blocklist
- Another fix preventing the words "Original title" from being submitted by accident
1.2.12
Aug 27, 2023
- Fix copy debug info button
- Add support for changing max lines displayed of titles
- Default is 3 vs the normal 2 lines
- Remove centering of show original button, fixes "jumping" issue
- Formatting changes:
- Don't change capitalization of hashtags
- Add support for changing max lines displayed of titles
- Default is 3 vs the normal 2 lines
- Remove centering of show original button, fixes "jumping" issue
- Formatting changes:
- Don't change capitalization of hashtags
1.2.11
Aug 27, 2023
- Update acronym blocklist
- Prevent video pausing when typing a space in the title text box (thanks @SuperStormer )
- Title formatting fixes
- Support "feat."
- Treat end square bracket as a sentence delimiter to support lock picking lawyer titles
- Fix Turkish and Azerbaijani "I" capitalization problems
- Fix title sometimes not changing when playing in full screen
- Use cld-asm library for language detection on Firefox and Safari to speed up title formatting
- Language detection is used to change capitalization rules in some languages
- Fix blank SponsorBlock userIDs getting imported causing install page to appear multiple times
- Prevent video pausing when typing a space in the title text box (thanks @SuperStormer )
- Title formatting fixes
- Support "feat."
- Treat end square bracket as a sentence delimiter to support lock picking lawyer titles
- Fix Turkish and Azerbaijani "I" capitalization problems
- Fix title sometimes not changing when playing in full screen
- Use cld-asm library for language detection on Firefox and Safari to speed up title formatting
- Language detection is used to change capitalization rules in some languages
- Fix blank SponsorBlock userIDs getting imported causing install page to appear multiple times
1.2.6
Aug 4, 2023
- Fix blank thumbnails sometimes appearing deep down in recommendations sidebar
- Generate thumbnails when submitting
- Fix reproducible builds for Firefox
- Don't clean ellipses in title formatter
- Important fix in title editor for XSS
- Issue also mitigated on server-side for old clients
- Database has been checked and no one has abused this issue
- Generate thumbnails when submitting
- Fix reproducible builds for Firefox
- Don't clean ellipses in title formatter
- Important fix in title editor for XSS
- Issue also mitigated on server-side for old clients
- Database has been checked and no one has abused this issue
1.2.4
Jul 30, 2023
- Fix embed titles missing links
- Add support for live updating (extension updates will apply to existing tabs safely)
- Add support for live updating (extension updates will apply to existing tabs safely)
1.2.2
Jul 28, 2023
- Add "default to original" to allowlist options
- Add better indication that submission is in progress
- Support embeds
- Support media controls information
- Fix playlist view on mobile
- Fix original title centering on mobile
- Fix video metadata cache sometimes not working
- Title formatting changes
- Updated blocklist and allowlist
- Better support for combination emoji clearing
- Don't change capitalization of greek letters if the title is not in greek (for math symbols)
- Update tips
- Add better indication that submission is in progress
- Support embeds
- Support media controls information
- Fix playlist view on mobile
- Fix original title centering on mobile
- Fix video metadata cache sometimes not working
- Title formatting changes
- Updated blocklist and allowlist
- Better support for combination emoji clearing
- Don't change capitalization of greek letters if the title is not in greek (for math symbols)
- Update tips
1.2.1
Jul 24, 2023
- Allow B emoji and similar emojis through emoji filter until we have a way to convert it to text
- Support "library" page on mobile YouTube
- Fix thumbnails sometimes blank on mobile
- Support "library" page on mobile YouTube
- Fix thumbnails sometimes blank on mobile
1.2.0
Jul 20, 2023
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of DeArrow for YouTube.
iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
Mac
Requires macOS 10.14.6 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
DeArrow for YouTube supports English
