Get Rid of Horrible Clickbait Thumbnails on YouTube
Once upon a time, YouTube thumbnails really resembled advertised videos. Once upon a time, the featured video list was not a sensory overload of photo headshots and graphic overlays, where each thumbnail looked like an epic battle in rap history. You can go back to that time and replace clickbait thumbnails with footage from real YouTube videos using the YouTube Clickbait Remover Chrome Extension .
Install the extension and tell it whether to capture frames from the beginning, middle or end of the video. Clickbait Remover also allows you to TURN ALL FORBIDDEN FORBIDDEN VIDEOS VIDEO TITLES IN US! to lower case or to sentence case.
As a result, we end up with a more boring and less distracting set of recommended videos. Notice how you can finally see what’s inside the video without hovering over each preview thumbnail. Now you can search for related videos that are worth watching based on what’s actually inside them.
To completely hide recommended videos, use the Free Distraction Free YouTube Chrome Extension or the YouTube Rabbit Hole Chrome Extension . Use YouTube’s built-in menu to hide a specific channel from your recommendations. Or if you’d like to see a high-res version of the YouTube thumbnail, enter the video URL into this form from Boing Boing .