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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • AFAIK the changing thumbnails are not made by YouTube. The creator uploads a number of options for thumbnails and video titles, then YouTube randomly? shows those options to users and provides statistics to the creator so they can apply the best performing (in terms of click through and watch time) option to improve video performance. It’s all of course linked to how the algorithm works, so is indirectly influenced by YouTube.

    Source: a video I watched a while ago but I don’t even remember who made the video, so take what I say with a grain of salt.


  • Until earlier this year I just watched the ads because in some small way it supports creators and I could deal with it. Then they increased the number of ads per watch-time to egregious levels.

    I certainly wasn’t going to reward a company for making the existing service worse by subscribing. Started using the apps people mention immediately and also setup pihole to block more ads.