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Does anyone else reflexively recoil from videos with that kind of thumbnail? This could be the best game in the world and that kind of stupid face and hyperbolic text sends it right to my brain's spam folder.
Yeah. There's zero chance I would have clicked this video if it had shown up in my recommendations. I clicked it from the description of the MCDM video, where thumbnails have no power.
absolutely. The hardest thing about using youtube now is the thumbnail cringe and the constant asking you to log in.
I can't imagine using YouTube not logged in. I used my Subscriptions and Watch Later tabs religiously.
For the thumbnails, there's DeArrow. Unfortunately it doesn't seem quite as popular as its creators other crowd-sourced YouTube improving extension: SponsorBlock. (Both are supported by ReVanced, if you're on Android.) But that mainly matters for titles, iirc, with thumbnails being automatically taken from a random frame of the video.
I run it mostly as background from my fire stick if im not streaming something else as background.
I'm not super sure about a fire stick, but isn't it Android-based? So you should in theory be able to run ReVanced on it?
amazon locks it down to their app store and its a bit harder to manually mess around with although I have not really bothered. its a convenience thing for not really important things and it was a super cheap impulse buy from years back. I check the app store for stuff but they really just have corpo crap by and large.