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pietervanheijningen / clickbait-remover-for-youtube

Replaces thumbnails and modifies titles of videos on youtube.com
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-for-you/omoinegiohhgbikclijaniebjpkeopip
MIT License
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Keep a database of Youtube videos with clickbait #24

Open mat926 opened 3 years ago

mat926 commented 3 years ago

By default don't change thumbnail or titles for any video. But keep a database of all Youtube videos that are known to contain clickbait , and put a warning by the thumbnail if it does.

pietervanheijningen commented 3 years ago

How would that database be maintained though? And on top of that what is clickbait can also be subjective.

mat926 commented 3 years ago

How would that database be maintained though? And on top of that what is clickbait can also be subjective.

It will be open source and allow contributors to submit their own videos. Also allow voting to determine how relevant the submission is. If video has enough votes then change the thumbnail.

pietervanheijningen commented 3 years ago

It will be open source and allow contributors to submit their own videos. Also allow voting to determine how relevant the submission is. If video has enough votes then change the thumbnail.

That would require massive amounts of votes though, theres more than 16000 youtube channels with over a million subscribers, most of which use some kind of clickbait. Just doesn't seem very realistic for the amount of users the extension currently has