I love sponsor block, it works pretty much flawlessly apart from when YouTube recommends me a video from literally 30 seconds ago, which is surprisingly often that I can now count it on 2 hands as of the last time I got a scarily new video on my feed,
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Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Sponsor Block is one of the essential YouTube plugins. Thanks to that I don’t know half of these companies.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Mac@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
And Dearrow by the same creator.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
What’s dearrow? Downsides?
Mac@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
It changes titles and thumbnails to remove clickbait. Seeing the youtube homepage without it is genuinely jarring–everyone is clawing at your attention. “Pick me, pick me!”
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
It replaces the thumbnail with a more representative frame from the video (voted by users). The ‘arrow’ was in reference to a trend where people would put a big red arrow pointed at some shit as clickbait. This is meant to stop clickbait
Paddzr@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Thanks, downloaded and bought it. Happy to pay for good software.