Clickbait Remover for Youtube (Firefox)

Most people, you included, might be familiar with the term of clickbait. Clickbait is Internet content whose main purpose is to attract attention and ultimately encourage users and visitors to click on a particular link or media.

While clickbait is a great way to drive traffic to a website, there’s a lot of controversy regarding its usage, as using clickbait is arguably at the fine line between boosting income and manipulating the readers.

Since the Internet has seen an astonishing increase in clickbait usage, there’s no surprise that the concept is thriving on YouTube. Content creators on YouTube (YouTubers) have since long been taking advantage of this little neat trick, and there are tons of videos that feature flashy thumbnail designs and massively engaging titles (usually written in ALL CAPS).

While we don’t judge such methods, we also acknowledge the harm and annoyance that clickbait brings. With all that out of the way, if you, like many, consider that clickbait is just plain bad for your YouTube experience, then you will want to check out Clickbait Remover for YouTube, a cross-browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that does away with all the clickbait shenanigans.

In short, this nifty, little extension replaces clickbait thumbnails with common previews from the videos themselves and reformats titles in order to get rid of annoying all caps wording. Once installed in your Firefox browser, the extension automatically removes all silly or over-the-top thumbnails designed to grab your attention. As mentioned before, it replaces them with still fames selected from the video itself.

Here’s the best part, though: it replaces them with frames selected from the video, either from the start, middle, or end of the video, at your discretion. And, that's not all, as the extension also provides you with the option of formatting the video titles. You can choose to have titles written only in lowercase, or capitalize only the first letter. A single click on the extension’s icon is required for you to have full control over how clickbait-related content is presented in Firefox.

While we are not here to discuss the ethics of clickbait, we will only say that clickbait is not exactly bad if used right. The beauty of this extension is that it provides you, the user, with the power to decide exactly what this limit between “too much” and “just right” should be regarding the whole YouTube clickbait situation.