It replaces it with the much more pleasing artwork from the actual video. Someone has gone through and picked nice frames for many of those videos.

What does remembering the actual title mean if they change it every five minutes ;)

But yea, a DeArrow search engine would solve that problem

But they are so much worse than they were 6 months ago. He’s gone and ruined all of the old ones too with arrows and more deceptive titles.

If you look at the DeArrow website and browser extension pages, I made sure to only use high quality channels as examples (Tom Scott, CGP Grey) to demonstrate how far reaching the sensationalism problem is.

on the extreme levels, yes, but almost everyone on the platform does some form of deception to convince you to click.

Like it says on the dearrow website:

“Clickbait” isn’t the exception anymore, it’s becoming the norm. Many have even started going through their entire backlog, changing old titles and thumbnails to be more attention grabbing and vague.

It’s no one’s fault. It’s a system that creates a race to the bottom.

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

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