DeArrow for YouTube 4+
Better Titles and Thumbnails
Ajay Ramachandran
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- £1.99
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Description
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
What’s New
Version 1.9.1
- Finish support for new YouTube layout
- Improve how auto-warnings are handled
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic App
This is such a useful tool. I watch a lot of YouTube and I get sick of all of the clickbait and want to stop doomscrolling - this definitely helps.
A suggestion for an added featured (not sure if it’s possible) would be to remove all YouTube Shorts, as YouTube is really pushing those now.
Great app to help clean up YouTube
Makes YouTube videos way less stimulating, and I like that you can submit titles here (would love if SponsorBlock could do this on mobile).
One feature request I would like to see is the ability to automatically remove channel names and series names from the title of the video
App Privacy
The developer, Ajay Ramachandran, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Ajay Ramachandran
- Size
- 5.2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.14.6 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © DeArrow and SponsorBlock Contributors Under LGPL-3.0
- Price
- £1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.