That is interesting. What do you think the accuracy is? (I'd be a little worried about false positives i.e. omitting results I want to keep). Care to share the uBlock filter list you use? I'd like to try it.
So far I think I've had one false positive for the word 'but', and tens of true positives. My theory is that the one thing clickbait video makers are not is creative.
To allow for false positives I've stolen an idea from HN and simply made the videos hard to see.
The current iteration of the filter looks something like:
www.youtube.com###video-title-link:has-text(/^you won\'t|^you will not| but | except |^when the|reacts to|^when you|wait for it|^\d+ (\w+y|amazing|strange|best)/i):upward(.ytd-rich-item-renderer.style-scope):not(:hover):style(opacity:0.1)
I haven't gone through all possible ways that youtube pushes videos at you, so I may have missed a couple.
To allow for false positives I've stolen an idea from HN and simply made the videos hard to see.
The current iteration of the filter looks something like:
I haven't gone through all possible ways that youtube pushes videos at you, so I may have missed a couple.