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I never got any emails... I checked spam

But either way, this is just slop, KomoD's analysis is very good.

Everything mentioned here is intentional, SponsorBlock data is public, database dumps are published for anyone to download, and the API keys mentioned are not secret.

There are even third party sites that allow you to browse this data built on the database dumps: https://sb.ltn.fi/

Is it very trusting? Yes, but SponsorBlock is built on faith in humanity, and it's survived almost 7 years so far, with only a small amount of spammer firefighting.

For most people, Google Messenger app now uses Google's RCS gateway anyway, so the carrier does not need to support RCS.

I do not know of anyone trying to get carrier-based RCS working with a non Google app using a custom rom with a different whitelisted set of apps, but it sounds to like maybe that would be possible

proof: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/0797d040740de8e9f7552...

or if you still want to see them, but with the normal player: https://uscript.mchang.xyz/yt/yt-shorts-redirect.user.js

Edit: To clarify, when I say "clickbait" here, I am using it as a neutral term referring to any materials used to convince someone to click on a link. I understand that it is kind of a loaded term and it is not used anywhere in the extension itself because of this.

The title of this post seems to be taken from the satire title on my YouTube video demo. If you install the plugin and view the video from there, there is a better title. It was meant as a demo of the extension.

> It's not just the Linus Tech Tips or the Mr Beasts of the world doing algorithm optimized titles and thumbnails now. Even really great channels like Tom Scott, CGP Grey, and Kurzgesagt are falling for the trap now.

> And I don't blame them! That's what's needed to survive on the platform these days. It's a race to the bottom.

> DeArrow hopes to solve this. DeArrow puts everyone on a level playing field. There is no race to the bottom since no one is allowed to be algorithmically optimized. It pauses the race, and let's the true best videos rise to the top.

While a niche extension of course can't remove all bad incentives, it still brings out the videos that actually are good themselves, ignoring the branding they were put in.

https://sponsor.ajay.app/database

> Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar.

They did say "competitive landscape"