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I’ve used clickbait remover addon for more than a year now. I vastly prefer just a random screenshot as a thumbnail than those custom ones.
Yeah, especially for some creators like veritasium where they play “musical thumbnails” and change it every few days for about a week or so. It’s so annoying because I keep thinking it’s a different 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
(I made DeArrow)
you are the goat. thanks for making these banger extensions for youtube
I don’t mind the clickbait as much because I’ve learned to filter the crap out to some degree (following F1 channels does that to a mf), but still, anything to keep the bullshit to a minimum.
This should be a part of newpipe.
The majority of videos I that pop up on my home feed don’t have clickbait thumbnails. A few admittedly do, but they are usually way toned down and when mixed among other videos in my feed not as vacuous when it’s just a few of them.
I think the issue can be largely self correcting on the user side if people just take a little bit of effort to curate good content for themselves.
Unfortunately, terrible thumbnails and titles are just a part of the culture in some circles, even if the channels themselves make good content. Look at this trash, and these are actually the better ones:
Clickbait works
LTT has repeatedly done less clickbaity titles/thumbnails and their views are noticeably lower. The YT algorithm pushes clickbait a lot more than non-clickbait.
It’s not really yt algorithm that pushes it. People click more on clickbait (duh) so yt sees more engagement so it shoes it more. Blame people, not youtube imo
It’s a combination of both. Google pushes people into watching random shit rather than a curated feed of their subscriptions. It didn’t used to be this way. YT used to reward subscribers heavily but now creators are dependent on the algo for ~50% of their traffic.
The real engineering original is basically spot on.
Removed the clickbaity thumbnail though!
I don’t really see how it’s click baity. Click bait implies that it’s lying or exaggerating something, and that thumbnail is basically spot on. You click that link and you get exactly what you expected.
Click bait implies it’s giving you a reason to click. “Doomed to fail?” Has a subtext of “Click and watch the video to find out!”
funny. if the creator used the right side for the xenphone I might click on it.
This is awesome. Just installed it.
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You can assume how good the inside content would be from a specific video by looking at its title and thumbnail. I’d rather not using it.
on the extreme levels, yes, but almost everyone on the platform does some form of deception to convince you to click.
Like it says on the dearrow website:
“Clickbait” isn’t the exception anymore, it’s becoming the norm. Many have even started going through their entire backlog, changing old titles and thumbnails to be more attention grabbing and vague.
It’s no one’s fault. It’s a system that creates a race to the bottom.
It’s absolutely the fault of YouTube for pushing this sort of interface, and the fault of viewers who click on garbage thumbnails
You can ascertain how much effort the creator was willing to put in the thumbnail but that’s really it. All YouTube thumbnails are basically just try to trick monkey brains into clicking. I can’t stand clickbait thumbnails so this would be really nice in my opinion
Can newpipe implement this please
Basically an Adblocker for your brain… nice!
I think i’m okay with NewPipeXSponsorBlock or Freetube, but for straight up YouTube, this is good stuff.
Does npxsb generate its own too?
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It’s just a screenshot of square raid shadow nordvpn space…
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Doesn’t it really matter if the title is click baity if the content is worth watching. It generates revenue for the content creator so I feel like I’d rather them have what works than a cleaner title.
This guy is doing God’s work 🙌
