[HN Gopher] DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails ... ___________________________________________________________________ DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube Author : tech234a Score : 46 points Date : 2023-06-10 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-10 23:01 UTC)