Show HN: Unclickbait – Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnails

Posted by namuorg 2 days ago

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!

Comments

Comment by Fudgel 1 day ago

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

Comment by Diti 1 day ago

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

Comment by carter-qadenza 1 day 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.

Comment by katdork 1 day ago

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

Comment by bkawecki 1 day 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.

Comment by ncr100 1 day ago

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

Comment by xyxc 2 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.