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Maybe wait a few seconds before doing so to not flash for most cases? And so it only applies to slow cases?

I like the project and switched to this from "clickbait remover for youtube".

I open several video tabs at once on my HTPC and then close each tab once the video ends and click the next tab. I have noticed that after closing that tab, the browser hangs for a few seconds. When I disabled DeArrow the issue stops. I'm not sure if the hang is on closing that tab or loading the just clicked tab.

The only default option I have changed is antialiased thumbnails since I don't care about jagged lines on a thumbnail and suspected that could be the cause of the delay.

My HTPC is an M93p Tiny with a 4570T, it's not a powerhouse but more than enough for some YT videos on a 1080 TV.

I use FF 114.0.2 on W10 22H2
The extension version is 1.0.10

DeArrow thumbnail cache

https://discord.com/channels/603643120093233162/603643299961503761/1117153486673559572

go on youtube home page
click directly to a recommended video's channel
switch to the videos tab
click the youtube logo to go back to the home page
click on an other video's channel, go to the videos tab
titles may be screwed up, if not keep trying

https://discord.com/channels/603643120093233162/603643299961503761/1117155926789599254

Seems it is because ytd-thumbnail is missing loaded attribute from the orignal thumbnail image not actually loading

Submissions should be in sentence case

They will be reformatted to title case by the client if necessary

Currently the extension is unusable for me because I find myself tediously checking every single video's original title to see what it was. This made me realize I'd rather see that by default.

I'd much rather see the title the original uploader intended, and only view the alternative one if I feel I have a problem with the original not being clear enough (which is only occasionally the case for me).

https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo/podcasts

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Sometimes the auto-generated thumbnails end up being images of sponsored segments, like here:

These can be manually fixed / better thumbnails can be crowdsourced, but I think integrating DeArrow with your other project, SponsorBlock, would be a no-brainer. Ignoring intros / outtros would be good too.

This gif is currently hidden because when hover previews are enabled, it shows the original thumbnail in that spot

It's inconvenient and distracting that hovering over a video causes the words in its title to move due to the text wrapping changing.

This could be fixed by aligning the button to be directly below the kebab button on each video. Nothing in the default YT layout goes that far to the right, which YT designed specifically to prevent the UX problem of text wrapping changing on hover. So putting it in that same column would be natural and cause no text wrapping to change on hover, solving this UX problem. This would make the extension's toggle button just as subtle and non-obtrusive as YT's built-in kebab button.

Browser media controls still show original titles and thumbnails. Might not be possible to do this when thumbnail generator server is disabled.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/440613-youtube-proper-description

https://discord.com/channels/603643120093233162/897699762738966558/1117117730034823178

Automatic capitalization sometimes generates odd titles when the first letter is a unicode character

Original title:
Ski Aggu über Crazy Frog, "Party Sahne", Southstar & Domiziana – Interview mit Aria Nejati

Auto generated:
Ski Aggu üBer Crazy Frog, "Party Sahne", Southstar & Domiziana – Interview Mit Aria Nejati

The issue being the capital B in "über"

This looks like such a great project. Are there any plans for a Safari version?

Hello,
I just installed DeArrow and so far I like the improved video titles very much.
There is just one thing I noticed, when installing the extension a help page opens and the following text is shown.

This extension is free, forever, for anyone who installs it during the beta. Yes, that means there will be a paywall for new users only in the future, but I promise that there will still be a way to for people to get free access. Of course the extension will always remain fully open source, with a publicly downloadable database, just like SponsorBlock.

This is very unexpected because the dearrow homepage does neither mention beta status nor a possible future payment requirement. Please clarify what the future plans for this extension are.

Instead of cumbersome random timestamp thumbnail generation, we could use youtube alternate thumbnails to show us a thumbnail from the actual video. This would be server resources friendly and instant.

These are all thumbnail urls in all formats:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/default.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/0.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/1.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/2.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/3.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/mqdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/mq1.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/mq2.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/mq3.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/hqdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/hq720.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/hq1.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/hq2.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/hq3.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/sddefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/sd1.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/sd2.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/sd3.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/maxresdefault.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/maxres1.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/maxres2.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/<video-id>/maxres3.jpg

Where default or 0 is the clickbait thumbnail, 1 is at the beginning of the actual video, 2 is in the middle, 3 at the end. Also img.youtube.com and i.ytimg.com are interchangeable.

Hi,

I'd like to disable the replacement on all the videos that are shown on my subscription page. I don't think subscribed channels are the proper target for this extension. I suppose simply excluding the videos on the subscription page won't be enough, since the replacement would still happen on the actual videos.

I could work around that by adding every single subscribed channel to the Channel Allowlist, but that requires quite some maintenance effort.

Tried DeArrow v1.0.10 from AMO with both Firefox 114.0.2 on Fedora and Firefox 115.0b4 on Android. I tried on Android first, but found it can easily be reproduced on desktop with the Responsive Design Mode (just watch out you don't keep ?app=desktop in the URL).

Screenshots and video titles just stay original. By the way SponsorBlock works just fine in these scenarios.

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.readyState = 0

https://discord.com/channels/603643120093233162/897699762738966558/1117121427267653632

Maybe related to some ratelimiting?

It doesn't seem to happen to happen with every Video (as shown in the screenshot). I haven't quite identified what links these videos together - time period doesn't seem to be a factor (the video in the bottom left was posted 7 years ago, while the other two videos are recent posts).
Possibly a Browser-exclusive issue? I am using Vivaldi and the Chrome-rated Extension.

The issue seems to fix itself when toggling "Show Original Details" on and off

When the page first loads:

After selecting "Show Original Details"

After unselecting "Show Original Details"

I think it would be great to add an option to format title to full lowercase.

Also, it might be useful to be able to format titles independently from replacing titles, to still be able to format titles even though "Replacing titles" option is unchecked.

Loved the product after coming across it on HN. Before dangling my feet into, I would like to ask what type of data does extension collect on our behalf?

Assuming it engages with the videos/feeds by YT, that means it will process lots of videos and will manipulate browser state to show us non-clickbait-ish title. What will be the avg. consumption of CPU by this extension's backend code ?

Thanks!

Titles can linger after switching channels

Steps

1. Open a channel with DeArrow titles (e.g. LTT).
2. Wait for the titles/thumbnails to fully appear.
3. Navigate to some other channel, can be through search or through left panel.
4. Open the videos tab for the channel you just navigated to.
5. It shows old channels's titles, in my case LTT titles on GN channel

Refreshing the page seems to help a bit. Although first time it happened, I opened a new tab, and search for a channel.

Very likely a duplicate of #18

Without the extension:

With the extension:

At the moment, I have only one configuration that disables DeArrow completely for channels that I trust/enjoy, and it is almost completely the channels I'm subscribed to.

I would like there to be an option to apply a config to all channels I'm subscribed to so that I don't have to type out a list manually.

I'm aware this might be problematic, depending how integrated DeArrow is with Youtube, in that case we can discuss here if there are any alternatives.

Right now the show original button is used to indicate changed titles. But, this appears in both of these cases.

Right now, if there is a vote for an official time, the thumbnail cache will continue serving the most recent submission.

This is alright since the main server will tell the client to ignore the thumbnail cache, but if the thumbnail cache is faster than the main server, it will cause it to show the thumbnail cache's stored image first.

Feature that would allow disabling title/thumbnail changing. This would be handy if someone wants to only cleanup titles.

Could be implemented as new settings: "Disable changing title" and "Disable changing thumbnail"

When you hover over videos there is an autoplay and a preview (when autoplay disabled). Having the extension enabled prevents that feature to function.

I hover over videos to see what is the content before I click on them.

Please add support for 3rd party front-ends, similar to SponsorBlock. Specifically, for Piped.

The link to the website from the extension window (https://dearrow.ajay.app/) shows the below error for me in chromium

This site can’t be reached
Check if there is a typo in dearrow.ajay.app.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

Discussed on Discord: https://canary.discord.com/channels/603643120093233162/897699762738966558/1121461319573455040

The emojis usually don't add any value to the title or video so it's just annoying visual noise meant to attract your eyes.

Of course, description emojis can help in certain situations for better readability, but I personally like when the description is clean text. So this either will affect only titles or have the option to include descriptions as well.

Example of annoying emojis in titles:

Example of annoying emojis in video description:

When DeArrow is enabled on my Firefox browser, Enhancer for Youtube stops functioning altogether.

I suppose this is probably related to #52 but I'm not certain.

Would it be possible for this extension to eventually support links like news articles? For example on search engine result pages. Clickbait can be even worse than on youtube there. Or is the scope strictly youtube and similar video sites here?

Thank you for making this!

Some fonts after transformation show ? symbols instead of letters

It would be nice to know whether a title is crowd-sourced or not.