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.
There is this blocklist:
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.
Revanced has dearrow built in. It’s in the alternative thumbnails menu
My revanced died a few months ago, have you experienced any issues?
you can use DeArrow with revanced, I do.
Someone just told me it was already built in. I just never noticed.
Smart Tube has DeArrow, you just need to turn it on.
Does that do anything beyond disabling DuckDuckGo’s own AI answering box at the top? Because I still get AI generated results on sites.
I wonder if sponsor skip’s database can be repurposed to include ai slop publishers
Amazing idea
Youtube is pretty much unusable now, more than half the videos are low effort Ai slop, and the rest is just irrelevant, leaving the real content buried deep down in the algorithm.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I don’t use an YouTube account and haven’t used for years for privacy reasons. I’m mostly speaking about using the search function without an account.
YouTube has a great algorithm, in that it mostly seems to show you stuff you actually want to watch, and let’s you say you don’t like stuff.
You can train it with a little effort to show you what you want.
You just can’t make the shorts go away, even with premium!
You can use uBO on shorts to make them dissappear.
For Android, 7 helieve revanced has an option for that.
I don’t use an YouTube account and haven’t used for years for privacy reasons.
Same here. Trick is to not use the YT search function. My strategy changes depending on specifically what I’m looking for, but in general for anything factual I start with a no-AI text search on DDG and then go to YT once I know what I want to see, or just use DDG to trawl through the videos. It’s not perfect but it cuts out a LOT of the slop.
For entertainment, if my current list of “known good” seems exhausted, I keep my subscriptions in FreeTube and go with the recommendations there where I can hide channels more effectively, but that’s pretty rare because I collect what look like promising channels as I go along in regular browsing, like Lemmy or news articles, and not from any algorithm.
