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[-] Kyoyeou@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Man this creator keeps on giving, making YouTube better than Google does so

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

It's pretty telling a platform like YouTube really only gets fully enjoyable with an adblocker, sponsorblock and this. I wish PeerTube had a lot of good creators, but last time I checked (years ago, admittedly) it was mostly conspiracy theorists and cryptobros.

[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The problem with PeerTube is that there's no built-in way for creators to get paid. If there are no ads or sponsors, then the only alternative is some kind of value for value system like what Podcasting 2.0 has. Until some kind of well integrated funding system gets built for PeerTube, creators really are not going to be incentivized to publish stuff on the platform.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Best I can think of, would be implementing Librepay into PeerTube and make payments easy af.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 year ago

Tilvids.com is probably the best place for good creators on PeerTube.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh! Thanks for the tip! Dumb question, Peertube federates, right? Where you can get a feed of all subscribed channels from lots of instances on one instance? With a quick poke around I'm not seeing username@instancsname so I'm slightly thrown off, but I've also only been on the fediverse for like a month

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[-] Knusper@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

https://tilvids.com has some reasonable ones, although they're often just as well YouTubers, so you get similar clickbait, unfortunately.

[-] tau@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

adblocker, sponsorblock and this

I'd even add Unhook (hide Trending, Shorts, Merch, replace "Home Feed" with subscriptions etc.) and Age Restriction Bypass (avoid the need to verify your account with a credit card). I also use Clickbait Remover. It essentially does the same as DeArrow without the crowdsourcing, which is already good enough for me.

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[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I mean yes but also it's not that hard. Google is not trying to give you a great experience, they're trying to drive clicks to ads.

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did the opposite. I installed an addon that adds Mr Beast to every thumbnail.

[-] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I need a mod for my phone my that just makes every icon a picture of some character with their mouth wide open, yelling.

(refer to this reddit post for what I mean)

Calculator? Someone yelling.

Settings? Someone yelling.

Camera app? Believe it or not, someone yelling.

[-] mdwalters@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

i tried that too, its one of my favourite extensions

[-] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

There’s also a Scott the Woz version, which I have installed

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I've used it for exactly three minutes and this is already amazing. I hope it gets integrated into ReVanced and Newpipe.

[-] SmallAlmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I would love it on Piped, they already have sponsorblock

[-] Rackarunge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Never heard of piped. Filling the same niche as revanced?

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kind of. It's a desktop web front-end to Youtube. I'm not sure whether it blocks in-stream ads (and I'm not turning off Ublock to find out), but it does basically reimplement the Youtube interface without many of its undesired elements.

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[-] Kyogen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I didn't know revanced was a thing. I only enjoyed old vanced for briefly in its last days. So good to hear theres still options like this around.

[-] Acid@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Really good extension, I've added it to my browser.

While some creators like Linus have said they dislike the clickbaity titles and thumbnails but they have to do it due to engagement that's simply because the younger generations are the ones engaging with that content. As an older person I'd rather just have a to the point description of what I'm going to get.

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago

I might get it for the titles alone. The clickbaity thumbnails don't really bother me, but I'd like to have a good title at least.

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[-] restarossa@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

But I don't want to reward people that do this by watching their videos

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I second this. The only reason click bait trash thumbnails work is people accepting it.

[-] QubaXR@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Love the idea, but just to be the devil's advocate, I think it will just mask garbage videos. Currently, the clickbait thumbnails and titles are an indicator to blacklist a channel, without having to waste time watching it.

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately because of the way Youtube's algorithm works, even high quality channels are buried if they don't play the game.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, even good ones do it.

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Got any examples? I don't recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.

LTT and SmarterEveryDay to name two.

[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

All those channels in the screenshot in this post.

[-] squilox@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Veritasium, he even has a video crunching the numbers as an explanation why he has to doit

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[-] ajay@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you look at the DeArrow website and browser extension pages, I made sure to only use high quality channels as examples (Tom Scott, CGP Grey) to demonstrate how far reaching the sensationalism problem is.

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[-] kratoz29@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This sounds like a nice addon, sadly most of my YT consumption is done from my Nvidia Shield TV with STN, so I still get those annoying thumbnails I think (I have them in my home screen and that's where I watch them or add them to the list to watch later within the Shield menu).

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 months ago

funny. if the creator used the right side for the xenphone I might click on it.

[-] GammaScorpii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Also be sure to get the restore YouTube dislike button extension

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

As well as uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock and BlockTube.

[-] Gili@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to have this on YouTube ReVanced and SmartTube.

[-] Hasuris@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Smarttube already has something like this. It's under User interface -> Where to grab card thumbnails. It replaces the thumb nail with a frame from either the beginning, mid or end of the video.

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[-] jackyard86@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can assume how good the inside content would be from a specific video by looking at its title and thumbnail. I'd rather not using it.

[-] Lemmyuser_Guest@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We need this on Revanced too. Also on NewpipeXSponserblock.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want to know when YT made it possible to have thumbnails be their own image and not taken from the video itself. I can scrub the video through every single frame and never actually find the thumbnails anymore.

Hell, sometimes the text in the thumbnail says something that isn't even discussed in the video at all. Those are the ones I hate the most. And I wouldn't necessarily want to remove the thumbnail, just because there are plenty of channels that make the thumbnail the actual title and the title is just... Bullshit, non-descriptive, a number, etc. Not all of them are bad. Civvie 11 and Internet Comment Etiquette do this. Erik probably does it on purpose both for the fact it works and also because he is a satire channel that regularly shits on these practices by showing how dumb they are. Civvie also satirizes YT's bullshit, but that's not really the prime focus of the channel.

[-] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I never thought it could be possible to do that, thank you so much for this and making YouTube a better place.

If someone knows how to get rid of shorts in the search results I'd be most grateful 👌

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Google's algorithm has forced people into using click bait thumbnails and titles. If they don't attract more views and subscribers, then their channels are not pushed.

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[-] verysoft@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I kind of like seeing the clickbait, it lets me know which videos/channels arent worth my time. I know most use at least a little clickbait these days, but from the better channels its usually managable and still on topic (like the Real Engineering example shown here, whereas the others are complete clickbait that I would avoid).

[-] donotthecat@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 year ago

This feels like, IMHO, trying to put out a forest fire with a single bucket of water. Instead, we should have a platform that does not encourage making titles and thumbnails completely unrelated to the video's content.

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