clickbait-remover-for-youtube VS farside

If you are on desktop I can only recommend Clickbait Remover

Literally called clickbait remover: https://github.com/pietervanheijningen/clickbait-remover-for-youtube

I've been using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-... this extension for quite some time. Works wonderfully.

Like Clickbait Remover for Youtube which pulls actual thumbnails from the video instead of whatever garbage the uploader decided would be enticing. AFAIK there isn't a way to do that genericly as the fetch thumbnail from x time part isn't standardised.

If you use Chrome, YouTube Shorts Block [1] is a good extension for that.

And while we're talking about extensions to customize your YT experience, here's three more that I really enjoy:

- Clickbait Remover [2], to remove the usually clickbait-ish thumbnails

- Unhook [3], to remove the recommended videos entirely (this helped me reduce the time spent on YT. I browse on my phone, add to watch later, so on desktop I only search or watch what I have previously added to my queue)

- Video Speed Controller [4]. This one is super popular, so probably you already have it installed.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-blo...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickbait-remover-...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...

[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

There's this chrome extension called Clickbait remover. It basically makes YouTube videos less enticing to click on. This would make it less likely for me to binge watch videos instead of doing productive things with my life. Same thing for hiding the home page.

chromium version

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then there is one awesome thing, that allows you to make video play through any of the online Invidious instances. https://farside.link/ where video URL looks like this: https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ opening this link will not point you to the same instance each time, it will select from the list of instances and choose one. Farside also does other frontends, not just Invidious.

Farside.link / Invidious so that I do not send people into a datamining JavaScript hellhole.

Libredirect, the extension, needs access to my data but it remains in the extension.

Farside, as I understand it, sends clicks to https://farside.link, which will redirect to the appropriate proxy with the full URL including the path. I can't really tell because the source code of the extension isn't linked. This behaviour can only be acceptable if I set the extension to query an instance I trust (my own, for example), but at this point it's just easier to do everything in the extension itself.

If ur paran0id, self host your own instance on a VPS. Ask yourself what is worse - google knowing what you are doing, or some other individual perv knowing what you are doing? Use farside.link to distribute ur use across multiple instances...i'd say that's the best option.

I see your Nitter, and I raise you farside.link: https://farside.link/nitter/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1594135214829498368

which is a privacy redirect alternative frontend thing called farside.link that pics one of the listed Invidious instances in order to let you watch the video that BBC posted to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78RFvnrRi0

You can run your own farside instance as well. https://github.com/benbusby/farside