nice, good to see an adblocker for clickbaits
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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Thanks for posting about this extension! It's a very welcomed addition to make YouTube more bearable.
Thanks for sharing!
Oog yes
Fuck, this is awesome. Great idea!
Yooo that's so cool! I'm already using SponsorBlock for in-video stuff, uBlock Origin for the around the video stuff, and a Thumbnail remover (can't recall the name rn). But I think this is even better, because just the first or middle frame of a video isn't exactly capturing the essence of that video.
Clickbait remover uses YouTube’s auto generated ones, which while are seemingly random, are not. They use some algorithm to target faces in exaggerated expressions.
DeArrwow uses actually random ones (and then a user can submit specific timestamps if there is a better one). It’s noticeable better on many channels imo. It also let's us do things like make sure the random thumbnail is not in a sponsor using SponsorBlock data
(I made DeArrow)
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And then there's that extension that puts Mr. Beast's signature clickbait grin on every thumbnail
Fantastic!
Oh oh I wish this was available for Safari too
Does anyone know how to convert this into a Userscript? I use Userscripts (a Tampermonkey reimplementation for Safari) and I did not get it to work.
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This feels like, IMHO, trying to put out a forest fire with a single bucket of water. Instead, we should have a platform that does not encourage making titles and thumbnails completely unrelated to the video's content.
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