The creators of SponsorBlock did it again, now we can crowdsource better titles and thumbnails as well. I just tried it with LinusTechTips who is a worst offender when it comes to clickbait and its really great.
Compare without DeArrow
and with the extension
Clickbait has this singular capacity to make one feel treated as a simple primate. Such a relieving comparison.
If I still used YT’s main front-end, this would’ve been great.
SponsorBlock has been added to alternative frontends as well, so there is a good chance DeArrow will be ported.
That’s what I’m hoping for!
What are you using? Freetube or something else?
I’m using an Invidious instance.
The removal of the custom thumbnail is refreshing. No more wired reactions with an arrow pointing at something.
I’m going to give this a try. The sponsorblock people have great ideas!
I tried it. It works well. But, I don’t think I will use it, because I usually know YouTubers to avoid when it comes to clickbaiting. Looking at you, Scotty Kilmer. :)
After Mastodon and Lemmy I think need a federated youtube alternative now too. Yes, I know PeerTube exists, I just need it to get a nice boost in attentions just like the other got.
Video hosting is way more resource intensive (and therefore expensive) than text and even the most image filled of Lemmy communities
This made me realize how much I hate the YouTube metagame.
It would be awesome if this could be ported to ReVanced
I’ve already noticed a couple videos where the corrected title made me more interested in the video than the clickbait title. Hope this extension takes off!
That’s how it is most of the time for me. I unsubbed from LTT because their clickbaity videos made it hard for me to see what I’m interested in. With this extension I might actually start watching their stuff again.
Feels like we’re back on youtube in its early form, more organic. great idea i’m downloading it
There is also Clickbait Remover for Youtube. What are diferences?
This one will additionally use user submitted titles and thumbnails when available instead of just random ones.
Now THIS will be useful.
Awesome, it’s like Clickbate Remover +.
If it works half as well as SponsorBlock I’ll be a happy man.
I was genuinely surprised how well SponsorBlock works. I was assuming it to skip the sponsored sections only on accounts with millions of subscribers but in reality it almost never fails.
Oh nice, thank you for making this and Sponsorblock Ajay, what a great person.
Holy shit! This is amazing! But how will I ever know what’s REALLY IMPORTANT without ALL CAPS and a shitton of BANGS?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Don’t forget the USELESS FUCKING ARROWS.
Unless it’s pointing to a red circle.
Just out of curiosity, how do you determine what is and isn’t clickbait?
I’d like to know this as well. The extension looks super interesting, but how does it determine what to replace the thumbnail and title with?
It uses user submitted titles and thumbnails if they are available. If not, it uses a random frame from the video as a thumbnail and applies some rules to the title (like no caps etc.).
For example a LTT video from yesterday:
Original title: ‘Only YOU can fix GPU pricing… Here’s how!’
Replaced title: ‘How to find a good deal on a used GPU’
And about the thumbnails, just take a look on YouTube. In general I mean 😄
You can see in the video linked in the extension’s website. It relies on people proposing and voting for different titles and thumbnails.
Like the existing “Clickbait Remover” addon, I believe it just removes formatting (caps lock, exclamation marks, other symbols and emojis) of the video title and swaps the custom thumbnail with either a thumbnail of the beginning, middle or end of the video (youtube provides thumbnails for various points in videos).
I’m loving this and have contributed a bunch already, but one problem I’m noticing is people labeling things “reviews” on videos that are definitely not reviews, like impressions videos or unboxings.
Interesting problem. I wonder if people will re-learn the correct terms over time when seeing other labeled submissions. I feel the word “review” has destroyed by a lot of YouTube channels.
