DeArrow

Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube

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DeArrow - 1.3

Published by ajayyy 10 months ago

  • Title formatting changes
    • Update word lists
    • Fix hyphenated words counting as "custom capitalization"
    • Remove force don't format from non-smart formatters
    • Add option to use capital case for non english titles
  • Speed up title fetching in certain cases
  • Fix clip page breaking extension
  • Fix transparent background for mixes creating weird look
  • Fix duation of videos not appearing on mobile YouTube
  • Fix empty thumbnails causing errors when failing to remove ab thumbnail
  • Fix submit button not working when title is a zero width space
  • Fix a special case where some YouTube featured videos are linked as playlists even though they display a normal video title
  • Add warning about out of date browsers
  • Add warning about when extension sync storage is disabled
  • Make hover preview work for shorts on mobile
  • Fixes for local thumbnail generation
  • Add error message when license key invalid
  • Fix invisible license key on light mode
DeArrow - 1.2.24

Published by ajayyy 12 months ago

  • Fix background color of mixes on homepage when there is a 4:3 custom thumbnail
    • Mixes now display slabs in the background that conflict the transparent background
  • Remove over and list from lower case words in title case
DeArrow - 1.2.23

Published by ajayyy 12 months ago

  • Add option to never use A/B tested thumbnails
  • Add warning when voting for the original thumbnail during an a/b thumbnail test
  • Allow Orion browser on iPad to bypass activation screen
  • Fix video titles in playlist boxes in search being hidden
    • They are unmodified though
  • Title formatting changes:
    • Add back 4 letter words to title case not capitalized
    • Not part of APA, but still pretty standard
    • Add another type of dash as delimiter
    • Add acronym to allowlist
DeArrow - 1.2.22

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix incognito support on Chrome
    • A recent change broke it
DeArrow - 1.2.21

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Support preview when hovering the up next button
  • Fix title not changing on Cytube and watchtogether
  • Title formatter changes:
    • Fix "vs." thinking it's at the end of a sentence
  • Fix errored thumbnail images sometimes displaying when they should not be
  • Remove unnecessary check related to incognito support
DeArrow - 1.2.20

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Add option to use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails
  • Falls back to these when generation fails if random time thumbnails are selected
  • Move guidelines button higher up
DeArrow - 1.2.19

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Don't replace thumbnails on movies due to DRM preventing screenshots from being generated
  • Fix title formatting on movies
  • Don't allow random screenshots at the end of the video if no SponorBlock endcards exist
  • Title formatting changes:
    • Remove "from" and "with" from title case lower case words, according to APA standard
    • Fix acronyms losing last dot if at end of sentence
    • Update word allowlist
    • Change title case trusting threshold
DeArrow - 1.2.18

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Prevent refreshes from triggering too often, improves performance
  • Fix badge moving on channel search results
  • Title formatter changes:
    • Update blacklist and allowlist
    • If there are just formatting changes, and the user doesn't enable them, don't use user submitted titles
DeArrow - 1.2.17

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix content script being registered when it should not be
DeArrow - 1.2.16

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix alignment of show original button on endcards
  • Improve speeds of some actions when some channel allowlists are enabled
  • Fix grey background on 4:3 thumbnails on the homepage
  • Add more words to the acronym blocklist
  • Another fix preventing the words "Original title" from being submitted by accident
DeArrow - 1.2.15

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

Fix it opening multiple tabs after activating

DeArrow - 1.2.14

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix issue with license key validation
DeArrow - 1.2.13

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix max title lines option text box being too small
  • Fix some deactivation issues with userID reset and Firefox sync
DeArrow - 1.2.12

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix copy debug info button
  • Add support for changing max lines displayed of titles
    • Default is 3 vs the normal 2 lines
  • Remove centering of show original button, fixes "jumping" issue
  • Formatting changes:
    • Don't change capitalization of hashtags
  • Support no-js on payment page
DeArrow - 1.2.11

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix broken again in some cases in incognito on Chrome
DeArrow - 1.2.10

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix Firefox version detection for Firefox forks
DeArrow - 1.2.9

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix not working on Firefox 102 to 105
  • Title formatting fixes
    • Support "feat."
    • Treat end square bracket as a sentence delimiter to support lock picking lawyer titles
DeArrow - 1.2.8

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Fix title sometimes not changing when playing in full screen
  • Use cld-asm library for language detection on Firefox and Safari to speed up title formatting
    • Language detection is used to change capitalization rules in some languages
  • Fix not working in incognito tabs on Chrome sometimes
  • Fix blank SponsorBlock userIDs getting imported causing install page to appear multiple times
DeArrow - 1.2.7

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

Please note: On both browsers, this release adds the "alarms" permission which allows the extension to set callbacks to specific times in the future. On Firefox, this release adds one host permission to inject scripts into youtube-nocookie.com (used for some YouTube embeds) as well as the scripting permission to choose which scripts to add to YouTube pages.

  • Update acronym blocklist
  • Prevent video pausing when typing a space in the title text box (thanks @SuperStormer )
  • Fix Turkish and Azerbaijani "I" capitalization problems
  • Use a non persistent background page on Firefox for better idle performance
  • Add code supporting soft-paywall for new users who did not install during the beta
    • As originally announced, anyone who installed during the beta gets permanent free access
    • People who got access for free, and people who pay, get a license key available in the popup and options pages which you are encouraged to share with friends and family to let them use it for free
    • New people can request free access and get free access after waiting some time
    • More information here: https://monograph.notesnook.com/64cf3e423f3f3f0d1a3d3d3f/
DeArrow - 1.2.6

Published by ajayyy about 1 year ago

  • Don't clean ellipses in title formatter
  • Important fix in title editor for XSS
    • Issue also mitigated on server-side for old clients
    • Database has been checked and no one has abused this issue
    • Thanks Firefox addons reviewer for spotting this! That's why the Firefox addon page is currently down