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.

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and with the extension

    • Mateo@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      yeah, and lots of them have youtube as a source of income as well so i get why they would want to. just sucks i guess.

    • jadenity@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. I watch a lot of YouTubers who don’t really like having to make clickbait, but it’s the algorithm that promotes it, so they need to conform to what works.