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Show HN: Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnails(unclickbait.app)

15 points by namuorg 3 days ago | 10 comments

I liked the setting in HackerTube (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510) that replaces the YouTube thumbnail with a frame from the middle of the video so I had Opus 5.5 build a browser extension to do it for all YouTube videos. Enjoy!

[–] Fudgel 3 days ago

How does this compare to DeArrow? https://dearrow.ajay.app/

[–] namuorg 23 hours ago

DeArrow is great! The difference is that this extension automatically replaces thumbnails for all videos, whereas DeArrow is limited to ones submitted by the community.

[–] Diti 3 days ago

It’s worse, since DeArrow benefits from its community to get actually relevant thumbnails.

[–] carter-qadenza 3 days ago

I've actually never even heard of this kind of tool. I hate all of news crap that appears in my youtube feed. Sometimes I even fall for it and click. Installing this.

[–] katdork 2 days ago

and DeArrow even does titles. OP should maybe have looked for existing things in the problem-space?

[–] bkawecki 3 days ago

Top idea, the first look feels good, like a fresh sip of water for the eyes after way too much sugary cake. Now it's more about reading the titles. Let's see how this holds up.

[–] ncr100 3 days ago

Making YouTube work like How YouTube Should work, for the user rather than for promoting / supporting toxic, beguiling interactions.

[–] xyxc 3 days ago

Great job, will try it. I wish we could rename most of videos too. I hate that every once in a while algoritm pulls some "This will destroy your hope" "I promise you wont regret watching this" "only 1% will survive" type of name.

[–] Diti 3 days ago

DeArrow does it.

[–] brokenmachine 3 days ago

There needs to be one to warn of AI slop videos.