Comment on YouTube sponsorship starter pack

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And Dearrow by the same creator.

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  • Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s dearrow? Downsides?

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    • 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!”

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    • 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

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      • Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks, downloaded and bought it. Happy to pay for good software.

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• biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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