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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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just out of curiosity, how do you determine what is and isn't clickbait?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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).

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