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submitted 1 year ago by Justly0250 to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[-] Justly0250 5 points 1 year ago

Nice Suggestion.

DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock.

He has highlighted the differences between the two in the description:

  • Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails

  • When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. 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 will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized.

  • When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment.

this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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