• Wxnzxn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      It’s pretty telling a platform like YouTube really only gets fully enjoyable with an adblocker, sponsorblock and this. I wish PeerTube had a lot of good creators, but last time I checked (years ago, admittedly) it was mostly conspiracy theorists and cryptobros.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Ooh! Thanks for the tip! Dumb question, Peertube federates, right? Where you can get a feed of all subscribed channels from lots of instances on one instance? With a quick poke around I’m not seeing username@instancsname so I’m slightly thrown off, but I’ve also only been on the fediverse for like a month

      • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The problem with PeerTube is that there’s no built-in way for creators to get paid. If there are no ads or sponsors, then the only alternative is some kind of value for value system like what Podcasting 2.0 has. Until some kind of well integrated funding system gets built for PeerTube, creators really are not going to be incentivized to publish stuff on the platform.

      • 𝜏au@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        adblocker, sponsorblock and this

        I’d even add Unhook (hide Trending, Shorts, Merch, replace “Home Feed” with subscriptions etc.) and Age Restriction Bypass (avoid the need to verify your account with a credit card). I also use Clickbait Remover. It essentially does the same as DeArrow without the crowdsourcing, which is already good enough for me.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I mean yes but also it’s not that hard. Google is not trying to give you a great experience, they’re trying to drive clicks to ads.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    I’ve used it for exactly three minutes and this is already amazing. I hope it gets integrated into ReVanced and Newpipe.

    • Kyogen@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, I didn’t know revanced was a thing. I only enjoyed old vanced for briefly in its last days. So good to hear theres still options like this around.

  • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Really good extension, I’ve added it to my browser.

    While some creators like Linus have said they dislike the clickbaity titles and thumbnails but they have to do it due to engagement that’s simply because the younger generations are the ones engaging with that content. As an older person I’d rather just have a to the point description of what I’m going to get.

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Google’s algorithm has forced people into using click bait thumbnails and titles. If they don’t attract more views and subscribers, then their channels are not pushed.

    • FlagonOfMe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Are you implying that content creators don’t themselves want more views and subscribers? Of course they do!

      “They only use thumbnails and titles that get views and subscribers because if they don’t… they won’t get views and subscribers since Google isn’t pushing their content.”

      That’s what it sounds like you’re saying.

      • Chreutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The point is that channel growth, clicks and interactions as a metric is used more for suggesting videos than relevancy and the likelihood that someone will watch a video to the end.

        This creates a click bait arms race between creators.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I want to know when YT made it possible to have thumbnails be their own image and not taken from the video itself. I can scrub the video through every single frame and never actually find the thumbnails anymore.

    Hell, sometimes the text in the thumbnail says something that isn’t even discussed in the video at all. Those are the ones I hate the most. And I wouldn’t necessarily want to remove the thumbnail, just because there are plenty of channels that make the thumbnail the actual title and the title is just… Bullshit, non-descriptive, a number, etc. Not all of them are bad. Civvie 11 and Internet Comment Etiquette do this. Erik probably does it on purpose both for the fact it works and also because he is a satire channel that regularly shits on these practices by showing how dumb they are. Civvie also satirizes YT’s bullshit, but that’s not really the prime focus of the channel.

  • donotthecat@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • verysoft@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I kind of like seeing the clickbait, it lets me know which videos/channels arent worth my time. I know most use at least a little clickbait these days, but from the better channels its usually managable and still on topic (like the Real Engineering example shown here, whereas the others are complete clickbait that I would avoid).

  • nameisnotimportant@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I never thought it could be possible to do that, thank you so much for this and making YouTube a better place.

    If someone knows how to get rid of shorts in the search results I’d be most grateful 👌

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      This…if they want to make their thumbnail as pathetic as possible, let them. It’s much easier to spot the junk this way.