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The Clickbait remover chooses a random thumbnail instead. I rarely go to youtube, but when I do, this makes it more bearable.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...

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In case anyone else initially misinterpreted it like I did: it replaces the thumbnail with a random frame from the video.

Oh, wow, that sounds amazing.

(also, I'm kind of curious in a disgusted way about what content creators would do if they had to optimize for that metric)

Interesting, I wasn't sure at first how it was adjusting the title, but it seems like it lower cases it. Interesting demo, but I think you could do better by just aggressively not clicking on videos like that to begin with. I never see that style of click bait anymore, as long as I'm logged in.

Even high-quality, reputable channels use the weird "strong facial expression" style of thumbnail.

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