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Comment by wkat4242 | Hacker News Reader

Ugh what a waste of her talent. I don't know this guy but his YouTube channel is so clickbaity. Every video title has some exaggerated screamy headline. I would never bother even looking at one.

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I suspect the Youtube algorithm means you have to use clickbait thumbnails. Nevertheless the quality of his analysis is usually excellent (and so is Kyla Dempsey's).

And yet the quality of that channel is absolutely excellent, and the polar opposite of what the thumbnail clickbait suggests. I'd say it's on the same level of the Admiral Cloudberg blog actually.

And to be clear I completely agree with your reaction to the clickbait. If I didn't already know the channel I would probably avoid the videos too. And I've seen this happen with other channels. It seems to be an unfortunate effect of the current youtube "meta".

Yep. Watched a few videos, was overall impressed. Subscribed. A week later blocked the channel because the value of the videos was less than the annoyance of seeing the thumbnails and titles in my feed. No great loss.

DeArrow [1] or Clickbait Remover for Youtube [2] would help with that.

1. https://dearrow.ajay.app/

2. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-f... would help

Neither are available on AppleTV, to my knowledge.

Hm ok, I've never seen it. It has appeared for me before but the clickbaity titles and images put me off. Perhaps it works to game the youtube system but it certainly doesn't to get my interest.

But I don't have much patience for videos anyway. I prefer long reads.

Shame really - his is the best in depth aviation accident channel on YouTube, and he is the real deal.

Ah to be honest I really hate watching videos anyway. I prefer the long reads she does. I just don't have the patience for video.

I sometimes use youtube for things where you really need video, like for a review where you have to see the product. But even for things like repair instructions I don't like videos. I much prefer the iFixit writeups.

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