Arviot lisäosalle DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube tekijä Ajay (SponsorBlock)
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- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Bakaba, 23 päivää sitten
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Speedy, 25 päivää sittenIt's a fine extension, it does what it is supposed to do however the concept gets ruined by moronic title edits made by idiots. So often I see fine, non-problematic titles being replaced with a non-descriptive mess. Important/valuable information gets removed for the sake of being changed, and I end up thinking "who thought this edit would be a good idea?" so often.
For example, this video:
"BETA SQUAD MAFIA GAME FT DEJI (CHILLI FORFEIT)"
gets changed to:
"Mafia E11"
whereas a better title would be:
"Beta Squad: Mafia E11 ft. Deji"
Here's another stupid change on a video from Techquickie:
Original: "Why do speakers hiss?"
Replaced: "speaker Noise: Hiss and Hum"
I try using the voting feature to downvote the awful new titles / I try to submit my own but I have no idea if it does anything as I never see anything change. The thumbs up/down emoji does a twirl and there's no indication if it did anything or what it does. This panel really needs some improvement. - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Iceyhammer, kuukausi sitten
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut RokeJulianLockhart, kaksi kuukautta sitten
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut 4color, kolme kuukautta sittenI love the extension. I don't like the paywall (I know the wall is paper-thin, but still).
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Firefox-käyttäjä 17635639, neljä kuukautta sittenIn Korea, there are a lot of fake video titles, almost all of which are different from the main content (especially news), but these extension don't change anything.
Honestly, if you were to filter out Korean videos that routinely lure users with more than 100 fake titles per minute, this extension would probably be installed by default on all browsers in Korea lol - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Micca, viisi kuukautta sittenReally cool add-on but it consistently makes youtube load slower, and sometimes not at all. Hopefully server side stuff gets solved soon.
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut nvlsti, viisi kuukautta sittenHave been using for some time in Chrome on my work PC, now trying out also on Firefox at home. I actually really like how the add-on works. I see no slow-downs or glitches.
Some people are commenting that the descriptive titles tend to "spoil" the video but in my opinion this is exactly the point. You can always switch off the default replacements and then you only see the "dearrowed" description after clicking on the blue button.
The one issue I have is that since actual work of replacing clickbaits with descriptions is crowsourced, this extension needs more people using it. And I think for many people the short free trial is off-putting and they won't even bother to click "I don't want to pay" before uninstalling the whole thing. (I paid btw)
I think it would be glorious if the DeArrow functionality was eventually included in SponsorBlock which has a much bigger user base. - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut pyzor, viisi kuukautta sittenEND clickbait. Pair with SponsorBlock extension. Spare others the agony of clickbait. Apply business professional english to titles. Replace lame clickbait load frames. Everyone who matters wins. Continue to block youtube ads with privoxy, a loopback proxy for firefox.
Unfortunately this extension requires purchase. - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Firefox-käyttäjä 18192038, kuusi kuukautta sittenhas a tendency to replace video titles with content descriptions, which, while good, does spoil the twist of the video in some cases (see hbomberguy's robloxoof.mp3 video) and can end up removing thumbnail art that is more of a title card than clickbait.
biggest suggestion would be to allow for a setting to remove clickbait while allowing actual titles to stay, but then you're asking a democratic userbase to deal with nuance sooo
overall ok first impression, good job Ajay Ramachandran.
edit: tbh, it's more funny than annoying to meKehittäjän vastaus
lähetetty kuusi kuukautta sittenI recommend using "Default to original details" in the extension settings for your preferences - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut ibkindness, kahdeksan kuukautta sitten
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Fox Bally, yhdeksän kuukautta sittenIt's a good extension. Was able to snag the pre-paywall beta on Firefox just in time. However, on my Chrome, i was too late. I requested free access and will wait until next time when i come around to it again. But it does give me more incentive to stay on the all-privacy Firefox, where i went to after Google's announcement of ManifestV3.
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lähetetty yhdeksän kuukautta sittenJust so you know, you can use keys on unlimited devices/browsers. You can view your license key in the options or popup.
But staying on Firefox is a very good option anyway :) - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Firefox-käyttäjä 14161687, yhdeksän kuukautta sitten
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut z3roa1m, yhdeksän kuukautta sittenFound out about this addon after SponsorBlock prompted me about it.
A great addition to the """Youtube Fix""" bundle (RYD and SponsorBlock).
Seriously, browsing Youtube is so much nicer with this installed, no longer being fished into watching useless commentary videos/drama.
P.S: I completely wiped my previous install (got a remote access trojan that i couldn't delete, thought the extension would remember me from my youtube account details), huge thanks for the key 🫡)
P.P.S also paywalling an open-source extension isn't such a good (and an effective) idea, but i get that making stuff for free out of pure enthusiasm can only go so far.Kehittäjän vastaus
lähetetty yhdeksän kuukautta sittenYou can copy the license key from a previous install, or email me to get a code if you didn't know to or forgot
Use this FcxeV-ea448 - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Gersonzao, yhdeksän kuukautta sittenExtremely useful piece of software, I wish you could see the original thumbnail/title by just hovering over the button for a user-determined amount of time
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lähetetty yhdeksän kuukautta sittenGood idea, I made an issue for this https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow/issues/140 - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut yoda, 10 kuukautta sittenI like the idea, but thumbnails appear blank half the time (despite selecting show random screenshot in settings + I have fast internet). In the meantime, I'm using clickbait remover add-on for thumbnails and this for titles.
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lähetetty 10 kuukautta sittenThis was a due to a server outage, and a bug preventing it from using the backup server properly when the main server is down.
Server is back so it should be good now, and I'll fix that bug so it doesn't completely break for other server outages in the future - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut ds, vuosi sittenit's great but when i open youtube video it's lag unit somthing happen which i suspect is loading recomnded video thumbnail i have i laptop with 16 gigabyte of ram i think that could be the reson for this lags
- Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut showers, vuosi sittenI absolutely love this addon and the concept behind it, but unfortunately, it seems to be very resource-intensive, causing my videos to chug along and lag for the first few seconds while it attempts to load many thumbnails, on top of causing all thumbnails to load slowly...
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lähetetty vuosi sittenThe thumbnail generation service I'm running has gone down to due a storage issue, so it is falling back to local generation, which is probably causing those issues. I'll look into making the local generation work better in the future when outages happen. - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Dark Moyan, vuosi sittenI never knew I need this but now I really need this. I just hope you will add Original vs custom/random thumbnail so we could see the original and the random one.
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lähetetty vuosi sittenOf you hover the title, there is a button to swap. You can make it always appear in the options - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Throwawayaccount, vuosi sittenThis addon most definitely has potential! I find that video's have started buffering... if i click at the video bar on the right I see the video tiles slowly appear. Either way I will keep trying this addon and if the buffering gets bad put it on the sideline and check back on it. Either way 4/5 stars buds! Nice job!
Edit: Thanks for the update! I do understand that it is in a 'Alpha/Beta' stage. I made an account just to give a 'Bug' or 'RFC' or 'Feedback' and once gain thank you for your effort!Kehittäjän vastaus
lähetetty vuosi sittenEdit: the update to fix this has been released
Still working out some issues, so I haven't released it yet, but the next update should help fix this by switching how the thumbnails are rendered on the page (By using Image elements instead of Canvas elements) - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut display name, vuosi sittenGreat idea. Though I am surprised that Tom Scott's channel was picked as a demonstration, as he is not a particularly bad offender in this respect, to the point where I personally do not mind having his original thumbnails and titles.
If you're aiming at something clickbaity, yet still informative enough to be worth spending time on redacting, maybe show, I dunno, LegalEagle? TLDR News? Linus Tech Tips? Karl Jobst?Kehittäjän vastaus
lähetetty vuosi sittenVery recently, Tom Scott and CGP Grey have started going through their entire backlog and changing titles and thumbnails to be more attention grabbing and vague. Channels doing things like this are a heavy inspiration for this extension.
It's not just the Linus Tech Tips or the Mr Beasts of the world doing algorithm optimized titles and thumbnails now. Even really great channels like Tom Scott, CGP Grey, and Kurzgesagt are falling for the trap now.
And I don't blame them! That's what's needed to survive on the platform these days. It's a race to the bottom.
DeArrow hopes to solve this. DeArrow puts everyone on a level playing field. There is no race to the bottom since no one is allowed to be algorithmically optimized. It pauses the race, and let's the true best videos rise to the top. - Arvioitu 4/5kirjoittanut Zack Bowden, vuosi sitten