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I mostly skip videos with arrows in the thumbnails.

• p_ing 2y ago
  PBS Space Time started doing it. Along with some clickbait/pull titles. I stopped watching.
  • abenga 2y ago
    For channels I already subbed to, I forgive that if the quality remains consistent. PBS Space Time's videos have remained stellar, as always.
  • eco 2y ago
    Check out the DeArrow extension. Crowd sourced thumbnails and titles. It's great.
    • account42 2y ago
      This is like removing the warning signs from toxic material containers.
      • eco 2y ago
        It's not though. Even generally good YouTubers are forced to play the thumbnail game. Garbage content is typically revealed in the community title.
        • gblargg 2y ago
          Nobody is forced to use them. If they really want an audience swayed by arrows, I don't want to be part of their audience.
    • p_ing 2y ago
      That's actually pretty damned good.
    • gblargg 2y ago
      I don't want to hide the arrow. I WANT to know what channels to avoid just by looking at the thumbnail. It's a feature, not a bug.
      • eco 2y ago
        You can configure it to not be enabled by default, but you click a little blue circle next to the title and it will show you the community version. Plenty of good content is forced to play the clickbait thumbnail/title game and it would be a shame to miss some of it because of YouTube's incentive problems.