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.
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.
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'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!
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.
This made me realize how much I hate the YouTube metagame.
It would be awesome if this could be ported to ReVanced
Feels like we're back on youtube in its early form, more organic. great idea i'm downloading it
When it removes the entirety of LTT from YouTube it will worth a try. There isn't much in this world that makes me seethe but that plonker is one.
I kinda like LTT materials, especially with Anthony but this extension is a godsend as I always hated their crappy thumbnails and titles.
LTT makes good videos that are hidden behind obnoxious thumbnails. I hate how it's sometimes impossible to tell what a video is about because the title is so vague, but I understand why they do it. He has a company to run, he has employees to pay. He has said multiple times that he doesn't like it, but it would be a stupid to not do it because a bright colored thumbnail with a face going :O gets way more views than anything else. Clickbait haters are such a small minority that it's worth doing because 95% of people don't care
He has said multiple times that he doesn't like it, but it would be a stupid to not do it
Most youtubers don't like it, but the numbers don't lie: it works.
If your business model requires clicks and views, you are pretty much forced to do what is proven to work.
A few weeks ago they did a video about mech keyboards, without the face or clickbait title, and it was performing much worse after 3 days than even the daily video. The difference was in the hundreds of thousands of views.
Even now, it is one of the worst in terms of views from the past month (excluding the last 3 days, which will probably increase in views still) with 1.1M views, against the 2nd lowest which has 1.2M views, but it is a video about Mac gaming, and that isn't a particularly performing topic.
Yeah people get mad at click bait but it's called that for a reason, it works. Probably an unpopular opinion in this thread but I don't find LTT's too bad.
I love LTT. It's entertaining, and he shows cool stuff. And you can even learn a thing or two.
And I am gonna be even more unpopular than you.
I find Steve from GN to be boring as fuck to watch regularly (though I watch him when I want to see a specific review, like I do with other channels, his content is very good in terms of information), and he resorts to clickbait regularly, even if a different kind of clickbait (that waste of sand thumbnail, if it was LTT, would be criticized forever).
And more, even if you want to buy something instead of watching for entertainment, you shouldn't rely on 1 single review anyway, so pretending GN is the be-all-end-all for tech reviews is ridiculous.
I get that people can find him annoying, but that plonker's video on dashcams actually helped me make a properly informed choice that literally saved me hundreds of dollars AND ensured I got something that actually had higher fidelity recording than many devices multiple times its price.
I tried it. It works well. But, I don't think I will use it, because I usually avoid YouTubers who are known for clickbaiting. Looking at you, Scotty Kilmer. :)
It seems no matter how many channels I block there's always more annoying eyesore thumbnails, so this is fantastic.
This extension is free, forever, for anyone who installs it during the beta. Yes, that means there will be a paywall for new users only in the future, but I promise that there will still be a way to for people to get free access. Of course the extension will always remain fully open source, with a publicly downloadable database, just like SponsorBlock.
I'm a bit confused what this means / will mean. A paywall but also still alternative free access?
Given that SponsorBlock is in Youtube ReVanced, do you think this will be included in ReVanced in the Future?
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 attention 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
Honestly I'd probably be the type to be like "yeah I hate click bait!" Download this, and then stop watching videos entirely because they all look really boring
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.
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.
I don't see where I can submit titles on a video page?
For SponsorBlock there's a button in the video player toolbar.
The demo video shows a button on the video description title. But I don't see one (on a video that has no DeArrow data yet).
Are submissions not open yet?
/edit: Since my comment I've seen it on video pages a while later. Dunno if it was a technical issue, delay, account moderation, or video / channel specific or what.
I really like this, and I will probably use it, but I hate clickbate thumbnails with a passion and avoid them as much as I can.
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 ๐
Now THIS will be useful.
@e8d79 cool. haha. but still. i wanna see click bait titles, because then i know who is most likely a scammer ๐
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.
Oh nice, thank you for making this and Sponsorblock Ajay, what a great person.
Hope Newpipe Sponsorblock adds this โ
Can this get rid of those horrible thumbnails "get rid of skin tags with this one weird trick!"
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