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Does anyone else notice the infuriating trend of people renaming youtube videos and swapping thumbnails? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's getting ridiculous. There's one youtuber that swapped the thumbnail 4 times this week just to make people look at it again and think it was a different video. The worst part is that it sort of works, I keep looking at it then remembering I saw something very similar from the same channel name yesterday.

I hate this so damn much.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://dearrow.ajay.app/ exactly fixes that.

It was created by SponsorBlock's developer: https://ajay.app/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

this is a strange addon, it wants you to pay $1 for it, but say you can use it for free, then after it's intalled it says it's not activated by default, with an activate button that once pushed, says "You are successfully registered for free access. You will be notified when free access is granted."

how exactly will it do that if I wasn't asked anywhere for my email address or any other identifying information before I installed the firefox addon?

i get this guy wants to get paid, but this is silly

edit : 11 hrs later, a firefox page just spawned by itself with the message "Congrats! You now have free access to DeArrow :)" and now checking the addon all sorts of options have seemingly unlocked and are able to be adjusted

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, the model is a bit confusing, but for the comfort it brings, I just paid 1 buck for it and called it a day.

That was also a way to thank them for their work on SponsorBlock

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If I had to guess I'd say that their other project, Sponserblock, got a little bit more popular than they were expecting and this is just to help alleviate server costs. Most of the API endpoints don't require any auth at all (the single one that does accepts a random UUID), so any checks must be locally done (maybe system time?). The extension and server back-end are licensed under GPLv3 and AGPL respectively and are also entirely self-hostable, so the code is out there to verify if you wish