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.

  • takeda@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Interesting, I had to enable dearrow in ReVanced manually. It was disabled by default.

    • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Thinking about it, I would not put it past me to have set it and forgotten 😂 it’s been a while since I played about with the settings!

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        2 months ago

        The way I found about was, finding the Firefox extension first, which then motivated me to search for the config option