This Little Browser Extensions Removes Clickbaity YouTube Thumbnails

The struggle to get as many views as possible on YouTube involves all kinds of tricks that several uploaders turn to, including some that are often considered by many as “clickbaity.”

For example, many YouTubers use a different thumbnail for their videos, and there are cases when this photo doesn’t necessarily reflect what you actually find in the clip, but is only supposed to trick you into clicking the play button.

Because Google allows this approach, there wasn’t much you could do about it, regardless of the browser or device you were using.

Until today, that is, as an extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox promises to fix the whole thing for you.

Simply called Clickbait remover for YouTube, this little extension tackles the problem I described above with a rather simple approach.

First of all, it replaces the thumbnail of the video with an actual frame that it imports from the clip. In other words, the thumbnail will become a screenshot from the vid... (read more)