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DeArrow is a browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal of DeArrow is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. DeArrow is a paid if you want browser extension. Titles can be any arbitrary text. Thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps in the video. These are user submitted and voted on.

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DeArrow is a paid if you want browser extension. However, if you cannot, or do not want to pay, you can click the button at the bottom to use DeArrow for free. No worries if you can't or don't want to pay :. Hi, I'm Ajay. For the last 4 years, I've been working on SponsorBlock, an open-source privacy respecting browser extension and open API for skipping and identifying sponsors and other annoyances in YouTube videos. In January , I will be graduating from university and hope to make SponsorBlock, DeArrow and future open-source user-focused tools my full time job. This DeArrow paywall is how I believe I'm going to make that possible. With this paywall, I am trying to create a funding mechanism for my projects while still allowing universal access. That's why if you cannot or do not want to pay, I still very much want you to be able to use DeArrow as much as anyone else using the button at the bottom. But, if you can pay, I would really appreciate you supporting the project. Privacy Note: Other than intially checking your license key, no requests to DeArrow servers contain your license key. This means that fetching DeArrow data remains anonymous, and your DeArrow submissions cannot be linked to your payment details. Already paid but lost your key? Installed during the free beta but lost your key? Email dev ajay.

If the original thumbnail is actually good, you can still vote for it in the submission menu, and then it will act like a submission, dearrow. Sign up to receive Popular Dearrow emails and get the highlights. Scheme Log.

Someone, at some point, noticed that videos get more clicks if the thumbnail included a human face and even more if that face is making an intense facial expression. Armed with this knowledge, people started doing it more… and more… and more. This earned them those coveted clicks, which prompted other people to do it. The current master of this sort of thumbnail is MrBeast :. Imagine, if you will, someone making this facial expression on public transit or in the grocery store.

The problem with the payment is that the database won't be complete for YouTube. There is a trial period of 6 hours, which only confirms the incompleteness of the database.. Developer response posted 8 days ago. When you leave YouTube nerdy english videos, the coverage is indeed not that good yet, but coverage is getting better and better in my experience By the way, you can use it for free by clicking the "I don't want to pay" button. A majority of people do this.

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DeArrow is a browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal of DeArrow is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. Titles can be any arbitrary text. Thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps in the video.

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Learn More. Thumbnails are screenshots from specific timestamps in the video. No amount of waiting seems to load them so I have to disable the extension for now. With this paywall, I am trying to create a funding mechanism for my projects while still allowing universal access. Packages 0 No packages published. Titles can be any arbitrary text. Mar 6, Version 1. VIA Journal Light. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. Renaming clickbait titles is a good idea, but in practice too many perfectly fine titles are changed to something stupid for no reason. The goal of DeArrow is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism.

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Languages English. If the original thumbnail is actually good, you can still vote for it in the submission menu, and then it will act like a submission. For consumers in the European Union, please note that consumer rights do not apply to contracts between you and this developer. Some people are commenting that the descriptive titles tend to "spoil" the video but in my opinion this is exactly the point. About Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube dearrow. With this paywall, I am trying to create a funding mechanism for my projects while still allowing universal access. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. Log in to rate this extension. I see no slow-downs or glitches. This might be my favorite add-on of all time. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These are user submitted and voted on.