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by eco 452 days ago
Check out the DeArrow extension. Crowd sourced thumbnails and titles. It's great.
3 comments
account42 452 days ago
This is like removing the warning signs from toxic material containers.
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eco 452 days ago
It's not though. Even generally good YouTubers are forced to play the thumbnail game. Garbage content is typically revealed in the community title.
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gblargg 451 days ago
Nobody is forced to use them. If they really want an audience swayed by arrows, I don't want to be part of their audience.
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gblargg 451 days ago
I don't want to hide the arrow. I WANT to know what channels to avoid just by looking at the thumbnail. It's a feature, not a bug.
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eco 451 days ago
You can configure it to not be enabled by default, but you click a little blue circle next to the title and it will show you the community version.

Plenty of good content is forced to play the clickbait thumbnail/title game and it would be a shame to miss some of it because of YouTube's incentive problems.

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p_ing 452 days ago
That's actually pretty damned good.
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