• StreetCash
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    1 month ago

    The intended audience is kids and teenagers which dont know any better. Clickbait is all they’ve known too, probably never saw the version of youtube or the web without

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      1 month ago

      I’ve got the extension that replaces thumbnails with a frame from early in the video, and the other one that replaces clickbaity titles with crowdsourced ones that are more descriptive and neutral.

      seeing YouTube in its natural state is genuinely jarring, I don’t like it.

    • SerLava [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      Yeah I get why kids would just not have the media literacy, I’m more annoyed that older, more intelligent people have suppressed the instinct they ALL had because they saw a few people online just saying it’s legit and fine.