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Have you heard of DeArrow? https://dearrow.ajay.app/
It's a browser extension that replaces clickbait thumbnails with good community sourced ones
Still supports a creator pulling clickbait.
The only way is to vote with views/retention.
Want to guess why they are there in the first place?
I hate it too, but it’s mostly one of those “we can’t have nice things because of other people around us” situations.
But it only supports them if their video is then also good. I don't like clickbait, because I don't want to be tricked into my monkey brain looking at something. I do want to see good videos.
Just yesterday the algorithm found some guy doing tech videos. I watched a few of them and then sent a text to a friend who I thought would like it. He asked for a link so I pulled the guys channel up on my phone, and holy smokes, clickbait. If I hadn't seen the videos already I wouldn't have given that guy the time of day. But they are well thought out, interesting videos.
I'm not here to correct the world's poor behaviour. I'm here to watch good videos. De-arrow does a good job of that, it's quite interesting to see YouTube on a computer without it vs what I'm used to now.
Blame the youtube algorithm and Mr Beast, not all the other youtubers caught up in the tidal wave.
Yeah they do it because it works. I've seen several who make otherwise good content talk about it in their videos and make comments about how stupid it is bit they basically have to to be competitive.
I don’t see a problem with thumbnails that accurately portray the contents of the video, since only a small number of characters can fit in the title and a screenshot of one frame from the video doesn’t say much, so it can be difficult to get a sense for the video at a glance otherwise. I do get really annoyed with thumbnails that are deceptive in any way. If the thumbnail seems like it might be deceptive, I’ll usually read the comments before watching the video, or quickly scroll through it to see if it’s BS or not. Sometimes, the thumbnail advertises something that happens at the end of a 20 minute video that could’ve been 30s, in which case, I’ll scroll usually through to the end instead of watching the whole thing. If it weren’t for the thumbnail, though, I might not have watched it all.
yeah but if you share it with people, they'll still see the clickbait thumbnail, and that's the actual problem
Thanks no I hadn't. Is that available as a Firefox extension. I do most of my browsing on desktop.
The link is right there, you could've just clicked it instead of taking the time to write this question?!
OK I see it now, a bunch of icons I usually glance over, because such "icon lines" are generally for a bunch of social media crap I don't use.
Apparently it's proprietary crap, so no thanks anyway.
The link is in the comment you replied to.
How exactly were you not able to see that?
Sorry, I mixed up 2 threads.
https://github.com/ajayyy/DeArrow
https://sponsor.ajay.app/database
This (again) is from the link in the comment you replied to..
Your attitude really doesn't work well with your lack of reading comprehension.
6 hour trial, sounds like proprietary to me.
Edit: I just read the entire text, and it is actually very reasonable, I just caught the license key thing together with the payment option. It's actually even cheap, so maybe I'll consider it.
You cannot be serious?! Are you trolling?
First of all, something not being free (as in gratis) does not mean it is proprietary per se.
Second of all, your reading comprehension failed you again:
Yes, but you could have just clicked the link to find that out
The link in a comment that wasn't for me? Like I update every 10 minutes to read all the comments??
Get real will you.
Imagine being in the middle of a friendly conversation where you ask a question and the person says, "Why are you asking me?? Just google it."
Well, this is a forum, not an out-loud discussion, so those are 2 completely different scenarios
They were also already given the link, so I guess:
I give you a green round ball. You then proceed to ask me the colour and shape of the ball.
I'm not the OP, so I wasn't having a conversation with them. But to me it gives off the vibe of "Random stranger, you should do all the work for me and provide all the answers, because I'm too lazy to do any of it myself."
Could just be me though 🤷