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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19421887

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.

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That example, losing the artwork of the Kurzgesagt videos is pretty bad though.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it? The original artwork was fairly clickbaity imo.

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is my biggest challenge with this extension. What's clickbait to one person is not to another. Several times I've come across titles that get mangled when rewritten to lose key points. Or the image gets replaced with a random screen grab. There's a difference between somebody doing the YouTube face and a title with "the craziest stunt you've ever seen" and an artist photo with a title saying the "a crazy stunt jump through a burning hoop". I'm okay with the latter but dearrow will often remove crazy. The is just an contrived example

One person could still say "crazy" makes it clickbait, but having some adjectives are fine

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It replaces it with the much more pleasing artwork from the actual video. Someone has gone through and picked nice frames for many of those videos.

[–] nincodedo@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can whitelist channels to not replace their thumbnails.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago