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Iceggiren i DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube

DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube sɣur Ajay (SponsorBlock)

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  • sɣur showers, 3 år sidan
    I absolutely love this addon and the concept behind it, but unfortunately, it seems to be very resource-intensive, causing my videos to chug along and lag for the first few seconds while it attempts to load many thumbnails, on top of causing all thumbnails to load slowly...

    Tiririt n ineflayen

    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    The thumbnail generation service I'm running has gone down to due a storage issue, so it is falling back to local generation, which is probably causing those issues. I'll look into making the local generation work better in the future when outages happen.
  • sɣur Aseqdac Firefox 17970984, 3 år sidan
    I think this add-on is a great idea, and like many other reviewers, I didn't really know I needed this until I turned it on.

    Currently, my only issue is that this app seems to really mess with the initial loading of videos, like it will stutter or not start in the first 10~20 seconds before returning to normal performance.

    This will only get better as more people start contributing to the process, but even now, not being exposed 24/7 to clickbait and other means to tug at your attention span makes a world of difference.

    Edit: Thank you for the response. It seems thumbnail generation service is back online, and as long as local generation performance can be improved, I think that might be the better long term solution, but I'm not here to tell you how to run the add-on.

    Tiririt n ineflayen

    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    The thumbnail generation service I'm running has gone down to due a storage issue, so it is falling back to local generation, which is probably causing those issues. I'll look into making the local generation work better in the future when outages happen.
  • sɣur OJ, 3 år sidan
    I am just thanking because this exist.
  • sɣur Redempt, 3 år sidan
    Does what it says on the tin, developer does a good job. Wish it had more community contributions but that will come with time. Love that it's open source, keep up the good work

    Tiririt n ineflayen

    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    thanks :)
  • sɣur Aseqdac Firefox 13491077, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur Charlie S, 3 år sidan
    I do not agree that there should be a pay wall for late adopters. That makes it more difficult to get good crowd sourcing metrics, which is required for good performance.

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    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    The idea is to have an easy enough free access system to not cause any issues like that, but time will tell how it works out
  • sɣur Dark Moyan, 3 år sidan
    I never knew I need this but now I really need this. I just hope you will add Original vs custom/random thumbnail so we could see the original and the random one.

    Tiririt n ineflayen

    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    Of you hover the title, there is a button to swap. You can make it always appear in the options
  • sɣur Saturn9, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur hoggys2much, 3 år sidan
    Total utter garbage! Tried it and Youtube completely DIED on me. Pages were still trying to load even after 5 minutes. Nothing worked, I had to close down all my Youtube tabs and it slowed down Firefox something rotten. I have deleted this utter garbage from add-ons. Do not use.

    Tiririt n ineflayen

    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    Edit: the update to fix this has been released

    As described in an earlier reply, I am current working on a fix for improved performance on Firefox. I should have it out today or tomorrow :)
  • sɣur EcoRadium, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur misterwu99, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur Claudiu, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur Eason & Yue, 3 år sidan
    DeArrow and SponsorBlock made my YouTube experience so much better!
  • sɣur DeAndre Queary, 3 år sidan
    Seems to be working. It's by the same dev as Sponsor Block so im keeping it. 👌🏾
  • sɣur Throwawayaccount, 3 år sidan
    This addon most definitely has potential! I find that video's have started buffering... if i click at the video bar on the right I see the video tiles slowly appear. Either way I will keep trying this addon and if the buffering gets bad put it on the sideline and check back on it. Either way 4/5 stars buds! Nice job!

    Edit: Thanks for the update! I do understand that it is in a 'Alpha/Beta' stage. I made an account just to give a 'Bug' or 'RFC' or 'Feedback' and once gain thank you for your effort!

    Tiririt n ineflayen

    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    Edit: the update to fix this has been released

    Still working out some issues, so I haven't released it yet, but the next update should help fix this by switching how the thumbnails are rendered on the page (By using Image elements instead of Canvas elements)
  • sɣur Aseqdac Firefox 15704348, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur Pedro, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur grvb3x, 3 år sidan
    Removing the clickbait from Youtube...brilliant, love it, makes Youtube a far more enjoyable and focused experience. Thanks Ajay!
  • sɣur Aseqdac Firefox 17940722, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur dzamie, 3 år sidan
    It's so refreshing to not be bombarded by clickbait thumbnails. Plus, the occasional rewritten video title is nice (though I enjoy the ability to temporarily see the originals). The only issue is that it takes longer to load the new thumbnails, but honestly that's not much of a problem.
  • sɣur Carlosgs , 3 år sidan
  • sɣur display name, 3 år sidan
    Great idea. Though I am surprised that Tom Scott's channel was picked as a demonstration, as he is not a particularly bad offender in this respect, to the point where I personally do not mind having his original thumbnails and titles.

    If you're aiming at something clickbaity, yet still informative enough to be worth spending time on redacting, maybe show, I dunno, LegalEagle? TLDR News? Linus Tech Tips? Karl Jobst?

    Tiririt n ineflayen

    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    Very recently, Tom Scott and CGP Grey have started going through their entire backlog and changing titles and thumbnails to be more attention grabbing and vague. Channels doing things like this are a heavy inspiration for this extension.

    It's not just the Linus Tech Tips or the Mr Beasts of the world doing algorithm optimized titles and thumbnails now. Even really great channels like Tom Scott, CGP Grey, and Kurzgesagt are falling for the trap now.

    And I don't blame them! That's what's needed to survive on the platform these days. It's a race to the bottom.

    DeArrow hopes to solve this. DeArrow puts everyone on a level playing field. There is no race to the bottom since no one is allowed to be algorithmically optimized. It pauses the race, and let's the true best videos rise to the top.
  • sɣur p4t4, 3 år sidan
    Maks youtube functionally better
  • sɣur Zack Bowden, 3 år sidan
  • sɣur Aseqdac Firefox 15923203, 3 år sidan
    Great idea, but it slows down way too much. Especially on watch history page. It consumes my entire bandwith looking at task managers networking tab, above 800 mbps

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    yeffeɣ-d deg 3 år sidan
    Edit: The update I talked about is now released, so this should be fixed :)

    Thanks!

    So, there are two ways thumbnail generation works. One is via asking the server for one, and one is via downloading part of the video locally. Right now it tries both and stops when the first one loads.

    Next update, I am going to change that behavior to always only use the server one, and only try local generation if the server hasn't responded in some time.

    I also noticed a bug where sometimes local generation downloads the video multiple times, which might be amplifying the issue.

    So, hopefully this issue will be fixed in the next update and you can try again then! thanks!