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What are your favourite add-ons/extensions on Firefox? (lemdro.id)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Clickbait Remover for Youtube makes that site a lot more pleasant. It'll replace all thumbnails with a screenshot from early in the video, and un-capitalize all titles to make them consistent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nice Suggestion.

DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock.

He has highlighted the differences between the two in the description:

  • Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow's main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails

  • When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as "Title Case" and "Sentence case". These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized.

  • When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover's thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only there was a Revanced patch for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternative Thumbnails is a feature available in the latest ReX patches.

ReX is a fork of the discontinued Revanced Extended project, which in itself was a fork of the official Revanced project.

I applied these patches using the Revanced Extended Manager on YouTube 18.33.37

Screenshots:

Here it is in action:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude this is dope, but I don't know if it is worth making the change for that feature alone, if I lose the patch of my YT again I'll try it!

I'm using the root way.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been trying this for 2 days now. I would say this works. The simple, boring thumbnails do not trick my brain into clicking the video.

if I lose the patch of my YT again

You can export/import:

  1. Applied patches from ReVanced managers: Settings > Export patches selection
  2. In-app ReVanced settings: Profile Picture > Settings > ReVanced Extended > Miscellaneous > Import/Export > Export settings
  3. SponsorBlock profile: Profile Picture > Settings > Sponsor Block > (scroll all the way down) > Import/Export > (select and copy all the text) > (save this copied text in a text file OR pin it in your keyboard's clipboard) > (Now Go to new app and paste in Import)

I switched from ReVanced Extended (RVX) to ReX using my exported settings. Doing it this way makes switching APKs a breeze.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, I don't think we are using the same client because I definitely don't have a profile picture, I am using this version.