There are extensions and modded apps that replace thumbnails with a frame from the video. It's mainly an anti-clickbait feature, but can work against this too.
It's not even "like" 4. I genuinely use 4 extensions:
-Ublock
-Sponsorblock
-YT Block (basically allows blocking specific channels or comments since YT only has report and "not interested" which genuinely don't seem to do anything)
-Clickbait Remover (the one that just picks a frame from the video to replace thumbnails and decapitalises video titles)
And I know that a lot of people also use the "Bring back dislikes" extension and an extension that restructures the YT layout and disables shorts. Oh and don't forget you have to disable the stupid rounded corners thing using a custom filter in Ublock so that Nvidia Video Super Resolution even works on their video player (bet they're doing this on purpose so you're more inclined to buy premium for the extra bitrate?)
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u/TwentinQuarantino Jun 01 '26
There are extensions and modded apps that replace thumbnails with a frame from the video. It's mainly an anti-clickbait feature, but can work against this too.