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DeArrow

DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

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  • Mozilla Firefox
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  • iPhone  As Safari extension.
  • iPad  As Safari extension.
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  1.  Crowdsourced
  2.  Community-based
  3.  Browser extension
  4. YouTube icon  Youtube integration

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Excellently reduces sensationalism of YouTube thumbnails, and provides more accurate titles to the videos.

The titles and thumbnails are based on user submissions, just like SponsorBlock (same developer), but also has an option to show a thumbnail from a random frame of the video, as well as automatically case-normalize the title.

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What is DeArrow?

DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.

"Clickbait" isn't the exception anymore, it's becoming the norm. Many have even started going through their entire backlog, changing old titles and thumbnails to be more attention grabbing and vague. It's no one's fault. It's a system that creates a race to the bottom. DeArrow hopes to stop this cycle. It's time to return to a more peaceful experience.

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.

DeArrow is developed by the same developers as SponsorBlock icon SponsorBlock, which is already used in dozens of applications