[HN Gopher] DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails ...
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       DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube
        
       Author : tech234a
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2023-06-10 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | bilekas wrote:
       | Could we get a bit of a run down of what this actually is?
       | 
       | The readme is super vague and only describes install
       | instructions..
        
         | FireInsight wrote:
         | From the Firefox addon store: > DeArrow is a browser extension
         | for YouTube for reducing sensationalism, misleading titles and
         | aggressive thumbnails. DeArrow works by formatting all titles,
         | and replacing thumbnails with screenshots at specific
         | timestamps.
         | 
         | > No more dealing with clickbait, arrows, or annoying faces.
         | 
         | > Users can submit better titles and thumbnails for each video
         | and vote on them.
        
           | bilekas wrote:
           | Thanks. I probably should have dug a bit more into it.
        
           | codetrotter wrote:
           | > replacing thumbnails with screenshots at specific
           | timestamps
           | 
           | so in other words bringing YouTube back to the better. I
           | think there was a point in time in the past where creators
           | were not able to upload custom thumbnails and instead they
           | could only use the select thumbnail from time feature or
           | perhaps even the thumbnail was automatically chosen. I don't
           | quite remember.
           | 
           | It's funny because I have actually found that making good
           | thumbnails really is challenging. I run a PeerTube instance
           | of my own where I host some videos and in general even though
           | I tried to put some effort into making useful thumbnails by
           | hand I think my handmade thumbnails are not very good and
           | it's better to just use some frame from the video itself as
           | thumbnail.
        
       | Zufriedenheit wrote:
       | This looks like a brilliant idea. Unfortunately, many websites
       | that started out as social-networks have turned into places of
       | "creators" seeking attention to make money on ads. Because of a
       | bad incentive structure. It seems Twitter is now heading this
       | direction as well. This extension might help to bring a bit of
       | sanity back to the web. I also enjoy using the SponsorBlock
       | extension made by the same guy.
        
       | detaro wrote:
       | The description and screenshots in the extension page are more
       | useful to figure out the details and should probably also be in
       | the readme: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
       | US/firefox/addon/dearrow/
        
       | gchq-7703 wrote:
       | This is from the same person who made SponsorBlock[0] for
       | YouTube, which strips in-video advertising and sponsored
       | segments.
       | 
       | [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
        
         | LegitShady wrote:
         | I would say skips rather than strips.
        
       | kitsunesoba wrote:
       | This is super cool, but there's enough YouTube enhancer
       | extensions now that I'm starting to wish someone would build a
       | standalone browser-wrapper YouTube client that has them all baked
       | in to help keep extension load in my main browser down.
        
         | cl1nk wrote:
         | They exist, check Tartube
        
       | Brian_K_White wrote:
       | I wish I had this, and something to hide all shorts, on my roku.
        
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