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DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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https://dearrow.ajay.app/

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[–] 54 points 3 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Yeah, even good ones do it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Do you have a link to the video? I casually skimmed through his video list for the past year or so, but none of the titles jumped out at me for this.

    Could also be a good example of why this extension sounds cool haha

    Edit: Found it just a few more videos below here I stopped haha. "Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective" https://youtu.be/S2xHZPH5Sng

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