The creators of SponsorBlock did it again, now we can crowdsource better titles and thumbnails as well. I just tried it with LinusTechTips who is a worst offender when it comes to clickbait and its really great.

Compare without DeArrow

and with the extension

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If I still used YT’s main front-end, this would’ve been great.

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SponsorBlock has been added to alternative frontends as well, so there is a good chance DeArrow will be ported.

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When it removes the entirety of LTT from YouTube it will worth a try. There isn’t much in this world that makes me seethe but that plonker is one.

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I kinda like LTT materials, especially with Anthony but this extension is a godsend as I always hated their crappy thumbnails and titles.

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It’s Emily now if you did not know.

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Thanks for the clarification. I wasn’t aware of that.

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I get that people can find him annoying, but that plonker’s video on dashcams actually helped me make a properly informed choice that literally saved me hundreds of dollars AND ensured I got something that actually had higher fidelity recording than many devices multiple times its price.

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Awesome, it’s like Clickbate Remover +.

If it works half as well as SponsorBlock I’ll be a happy man.

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I was genuinely surprised how well SponsorBlock works. I was assuming it to skip the sponsored sections only on accounts with millions of subscribers but in reality it almost never fails.

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Oh nice, thank you for making this and Sponsorblock Ajay, what a great person.

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Just out of curiosity, how do you determine what is and isn’t clickbait?

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I’d like to know this as well. The extension looks super interesting, but how does it determine what to replace the thumbnail and title with?

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