ajay

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[–] ajay@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Clickbait remover uses YouTube’s auto generated ones, which while are seemingly random, are not. They use some algorithm to target faces in exaggerated expressions.

DeArrow uses actually random ones (and then a user can submit specific timestamps if there is a better one). It’s noticeable better on many channels imo

(I made DeArrow)

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to use a custom add-on collection and Firefox Beta because Mozilla restricts which add-ons you can use

github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Android

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

BlockTube can block videos based on keywords

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clickbait remover uses YouTube’s auto generated ones, which while are seemingly random, are not. They use some algorithm to target faces in exaggerated expressions.

DeArrwow uses actually random ones (and then a user can submit specific timestamps if there is a better one). It’s noticeable better on many channels imo. It also let's us do things like make sure the random thumbnail is not in a sponsor using SponsorBlock data

(I made DeArrow)

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Clickbait remover uses YouTube's auto generated ones, which while are seemingly random, are not. They use some algorithm to target faces in exaggerated expressions.

DeArrwow uses actually random ones (and then a user can submit specific timestamps if there is a better one). It's noticeable better on many channels imo

(I made DeArrow)

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Creator of theq extension here, that is an optional permissions (may ask). It never asks to access to all sites, it only optionally let's you add support for additional sites such as different Invidious instances. These are arbitrary domains, so it needs permission to ask for any arbitrary website.

Support for invidious is not actually done yet, so right now, it never asks for permission for any new sites anyway

The client side data is used to store your submissions to always show your preferred title, even if there is another submission on the server. You can disable this option in the settings

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Link taxes only serve to strengthen the monopolies. News companies are now going to be dependent on Facebook and google (the only ones who have to pay) and news companies and governments will want to keep the status quo as much as possible.

A general tax on large tech companies going to something like the Canadian media fund is a lot more reasonable.

We can not afford to tie the sustainability of such a vital resource to the success of two specific monopolistic foreign corporations.

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