I wonder if sponsor skip’s database can be repurposed to include ai slop publishers
Amazing idea
I forgot about that. DeArrow would work great for this.
If it cannot remove the video, it can at least replace slop video titles and thumbnails with a blank rectangle and an empty space character.
Pay for Kagi. You want free? Ads and AI slop is the price for it. You want quality human shit? Pay for kagi
It’s YouTube.
Yay! Capitalism saved the day
That really paints a dark future
before:2022 might work
But how do I verify my email on Reddit?
It’s a truly complicated task
If you remove LLM slop will there be anything left?
I can advise anyone to install DeArrow.
Instead of having every thumbnail screaming at me, YouTube is now much calmer in general. Even the clickbait titles are replaced by crowdsourced alternatives.
No more “TOP 5 Reasons Why You SHOULD use/not use something ❌❌/✅✅”, but “review of something” instead.
I have a different approach, for me the idiotic title is a red flag that I shouldn’t watch the video in the first place. But for thumbnails it seems like the only way to survive on youtube is to make a youtube face in thumbnail pointing at something, even the respectable and interesting channels are doing it
YouTube made changes, and the YouTube reps who deal with creators have given them marching orders that they need to follow or else no money. Every one of the creators I sub has dedicated a video to how things have to be now, and they know we hate it, and they hate it. But there’s nothing they can do because YouTube is their source of income.
I’m torn cause I use smart tube & revanced to avoid ads, but I really want something like this but not enough to deal with the bullshit 3-5 ads every five minutes.
you can use DeArrow with revanced, I do.
Someone’s just told me it was already built in. I just never noticed.
Revanced has dearrow built in. It’s in the alternative thumbnails menu
My revanced died a few months ago, have you experienced any issues?
Working ok for me now after updating
Try patching with the latest build, that’s what normally works for me.
Sweet! Makes sense now why my tv experience is so different
You have to explicitly enable it though
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
That’s not what they asked.
Tough shit.
Awww… poor thing.
FUCK REDDIT
FUCK SPEZ
I did not need the information in this video, but it’s only a matter of time before helpful guides are overwhelmed with this shit
“It seemed to me,” said Wonko the Sane, “that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
Kagi.
It’s not perfect and it’s not free for unlimited use, but I think it’s worth paying for.
It doesn’t feel as dated as Duck Duck Go feels to me. It kinda feels like using Google without the enshitification that google has gone through.
I like the option to filter results. Here’s an image of some filter options:
I also did a search for the term “verify email” like in the OP. I did not see nearly as many AI video results. At least not as many obvious AI results.
It’s not perfect tho and it’s hard to escape AI slop.
Interestingly, Kagi has an option to filter out AI videos in the result, but I felt like changing that gave me more AI results than without it.
However, searching with and without, the first ten results did not appear to be AI. After the tenth option, most options were AI regardless of the filter settings.
There is this blocklist:
Thank you very much!
Thank you !
Who is the target audience for that ? Who the fuck even neds instructions to verify a damn email address, much less a whole ass youtube video ?
Why is OP searching for it?
I’ll give OP the benefit of the doubt and say that perhaps they searched for something else but it had enough overlap with keywords that the slop is targeting that their seemingly more niche search is getting drowned out
I was looking for an image of reddit’s award/badge that they put on profiles
People who have never been online before, people who don’t understand the meaning of the phrase (ESL etc), children
DuckDuckGo has a “hide ai images” setting. It seems it also blocks these videos. I’m not getting any of those videos in your screenshot if I search on DDG.
Kagi too. https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
But YouTube is basically just a slop bucket.
That Kagi Linux browser they’ve been teasing for the last few months can’t come out fast enough! I wrote this comment on Firefox+ublock btw
I’m very happy with Vivaldi. Works great with Kagi on Linux and Android and in the android version they recently introduced an option to configure custom engines (like Kagi) right in the app (previously you needed to add it on PC and sync to android).
But more options is always better.
Wh arts so good about kagi? I looked it up once and I saw a subscription and a focus on ai and I noped out.
The search itself is great and accurate. Kagi doesn’t track you, show ads or manipulate search results to get you to buy something or because someone paid them to. You are their paying customer so they focus on making the service for you. You can actually manipulate the results to your needs by ranking (voting) domains up, down or completely blocking. Imagine search results without pinterest, quora or tiktok! There’s a lot of other settings and pre-made or custom filters to search the areas of the Internet you want.
Kagi is not focused on AI, contrary to Google, Bing etc. AI is optional and it’s not shoved in your face. You can chose to display quick AI summaries, hide them or have them appear if you finish your query with a question mark. Contrary to Google, Bing etc. these summaries are actually really good because they summarize (or give you an answer based on) search results and the search results are simply better the in the other search engines.
Couple of years ago I also noped out hearing I would need to pay for search. The truth is, with “free” search you’re paying for it with your frustration, your private information that they mine, use and sell. Searching is getting worse and worse and they won’t make it better because you’re not even their customer, you’re a sheep they shear to sell your wool to tailors so they can make cloths and sell them back to you. Maybe I drifted a bit with the metaphor but you know what I mean 🤣
Kagi lets you set up a free account without giving them your credit card. You get a small number of free searches that refill every month so you can try it for free. There are obviously Black Friday deals etc.
I also have this link that’ll let you try Kagi Pro for 90 for free. Somone posted it on Kagi subreddit, seems to be working still even though it’s Thanksgiving promo.
It only partially works, still get ai images with that setting enabled.
