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I’ve really been looking forward to Horizon Forbidden West, especially the story, as part of the reason I loved the first game was because of the mystery of the story and finding out out what had happened to the world.
I deleted my search history and watch history on YouTube to make sure I didn’t get any spoiler videos and I STILL get a video in my recommended with the fucking ending plastered all over the thumbnail.
It’s so fucking annoying and whilst I’m sure I’ll still really enjoy the game, I’ve now been robbed of the mystery that I loved so much in the original game.
Fuck these assholes!
Edit: Thank you to the ‘concerned redditor’ who told Reddit that I’m suicidal. I guess I’ve found the YouTuber, lol
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All for clicks.
ID: hxkteunYeah and the annoying thing is, is that it works, so they just keep doing it. That video had 91k views.
ID: hxllvguIf you're on desktop there's an extension called click bait remover, it replaces the thumbnail with a frame from the video (you can choose between beginning/middle/end third of the video). I use it on Firefox and it works very well. Don't think it's on mobile
ID: hxl60h0In France they use the term: "Pute à cliques" which literally means "click hoe".. it is really perfect
ID: hxlg588I mean, we have the phrase "attention whore" for similar reasons.
ID: hxlqge8C'est grâve vulgaire par contre
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If you use the clickbait remover addon it replaces the thumbnail with a frame from the video.
ID: hxl842aThis is a good workaround.
ID: hxl9fgnThat is amazing, thank you.
ID: hxldm5tis there one for Chrome?
ID: hxli0ttYes. For safari too
ID: hxlpoiyHoly shit that instantly made YouTube a thousand times better.
ID: hxlg3v9Could've used this when NWH came out...
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I went on a purge of 'don't recommend channel' when this was happening to me and for a couple months now this has seemed to have work. Though I wasn't impressed when I searched for Digital Foundry's performance review and the third recommended video was Forbidden West's ending!
ID: hxky20pIt’s so frustrating.
ID: hxl7e8dImagine hating yourself to the point that you can only find joy from baiting folks or ruining things for them - sad, sad people
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I got recommended a video yesterday by "Gamer Jayz" spoiling the first boss in the thumbnail with its name in the title and I'm so fucking pissed - I can't even imagine getting the ending spoiled.
Definitely staying out of Youtube until I finish the game.
Edit:
is DMing people spoilers. Good thing I didn't get to see it before it went away. Direct messaging disabled.ID: hxlx9u7I blocked em. I ain't gon get nothing. I advise everyone else to block them.
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I had RDR2 spoiled in this exact way.
Had Spider-Man No Way Home spoiled on Reddit. Some jerk off posted a major spoiler as the title of a post in several gaming subs.
Assholes are everywhere.
ID: hxkrjzkI had Rdr2 spoiled by somebody on twitter stopped playing after that I was so angry aswell
ID: hxkzasiI fucked myself by searching for a treasure map guide. Noticed the hair on the MC looked kinda weird and yeah, if you know you know i guess.
ID: hxl5z40I had rdr2 spoiled in a fucking destiny Sherpa raid of which I was the Sherpa. I’d been slowly getting this bloke through a raid for six weeks as well.
ID: hxl8fmmSomeone tried to spoil Spider-Man in our friend group. My girl and I have seen it, this person had seen it, and everyone else did not. They were insisting it doesn’t matter and it’s still a good movie so they could tell some stupid fucking story. I went bananas (calmly, no body got time for yelling) explaining how unreal selfish it was to spoil something for someone like that, especially intentionally.
Why do people insist on sapping what little joy other people get in their lives?
ID: hxkyj98I had TLoU 2 spoiled (a certain death of a charackter to be specific) by a reddit user name on the Monster Hunter World sub. I didn't even follow the game that much because I didn't want to get spoiled (and I wasn't that interested in the game tbh, just happen to get it as a gift)
Had an argument with some people in some random YT video's comment section because in their opinion it's the peoples fault when they get spoiled. While sure alot of people are responsible for spoiling themselves these examples show it's sometimes impossible not to get spoiled when there are people actively trying to spoil others.
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Sick and tired of youtubers full stop tbh.
ID: hxkvzejLet’s goooo! Now before we get to the video,
ID: hxl971qOh my god that's gotten worse lately.
2 ads, video starts, "hello guys and welcome to another video, smash that like, subscribe button" now let's get right into it!....but first, this video is sponsored by Raid!....skip foward a minute, 5 seconds until ad. Hit downvote, turn video off, repeat new video.
ID: hxl58uh"My dead grandma didn't know how to subscribe, just like you, so make sure to smash that subscribe button and ring the motherfucking bell!"
ID: hxlmo22honestly been the dark age of youtube imo and it’s why i hate going on youtube. shit is ridiculous.
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Absolutely. I had one of the Dying Light 2 bosses spoiled for me because of this.
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Do you guys tend to watch a lot of gameplay footage? I have yet to get any reccomendations like that and I think its because I dont watch much sole gameplay footage.
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Good post.
I have the same opinion. Thumbnails are spoilers too. That's what not a single YouTuber understands.
Good thing is I rarely watching YouTube anymore since the advertising hell started. Same reason i don't watch TV anymore since about 7 years.
ID: hxl8292YouTube vanced for mobile. No ads, pip, lock screen playback. It's great. I was an idiot and watched one cat video. Now that's all i see every damn day.
ID: hxltl5bNot even more "professional" channels like IGN. They had "spoiler warning!" in the title of a video about a Marvel show but the spoiler itself was in the thumbnail. Fucking morons fucked me over with their stupidity. I avoid them now.
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Someone on this subreddit is spamming that suicidal reddit message to everyone who post on this sub. Too bad it doesn't tell you who the person is
ID: hxkx58eYeah, it’d be handy if it did.
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Looks like ill skip youtube for a good while. Sorry about you mate but thanks for the warning.
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I unsubscribed from so many YouTubers due to game, movie and tv show reaction thumbnails. I can't stand it. They can't let it breathe for a day or two
ID: hxl061yThey can't let it breathe for a day or two
You just can't afford to when your competitors are working so fast, there are already complete lets plays available on youtube for the new Horizon. The only way around this for most people is to get a youtube keyword filter and restrict all of those words before release.
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I feel you, I'm starting to hate YouTube now, all you see are spoilers for movies and games now. I unsubscribed from IGN just for this reason, all they post are spoilers for games and movies now. It's so annoying, nowadays people will spoil things just because they know they will get views smh
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Every time I see a clickbait thumbnail with a person's dumb face or an arrow or a question in big bright font, I tell YouTube to block that channel. This broke their algorithm and now only shows me videos from my subs and like 2 other channels. Highly recommended
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I got to the last act of Red Dead 2, then got the ending spoiled. I stopped playing after that as I realised I was mostly playing for the story. Never went back.
Fuck YouTubers. When I see those kind of videos on my recommendations, I click “don’t show this channel”.
ID: hxkw4bzYeah, that’s what I do. It’s the only thing you can do really unfortunately.
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That's why I love TheRadBrad. Dude usually just uses basic game art that's been published for months as his
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Yeh this happened with god of war when it came out. Just had an image of the final boss in the thumbnail. Clicks and money are worth more than anything else
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As you tragically figured out, deleting history doesn't do much. The way ads work these days Youtube still sees your personal ad profile and all the Horizon related activity you had on other sites.
What I do:
I use Youtube mostly on my phone. If I want the big screen I'll just cast it to my TV;
If you long press the app icon on Android, you'll most likely see a shortcut pop up to your Subscriptions. That's the only way I open this damn app on times of hype like this;
For better results, depending on your launcher you can drag the shortcut and place it in your home screen. Then it's all game: edit its name and icon to make it look like Youtube, put it on a folder with Youtube proper, assign a swipe shortcut to open it when you swipe over the Youtube icon, etc.
Obviously it doesn't prevent Youtube from showing you recommended videos after you finish watching something, but those I find easier to dodge with their size and placement on the screen.
Aside from that, just make sure to select the three dots icon besides the offending video and select the Never Recommend This Channel option. There are channels with 1m+ followers doing this crap, at least with time you'll easily dodge the big bastards.
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This is exactly why I make sure to avoid social media whenever something like that comes out. It's really annoying.
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Unfortunate but I think the answer to this is just complete avoidance of sites like yt and reddit etc until you get to the point in the story yourself. I know said than done, there is a world of difference there if you're a person with a yt/reddit tab open all waking hours but the amount of people and content about the game online is so massive and rabid there will never be a 100% safe space for you to linger. Depending on how serious you are on the spoilers in question, cold turkey is probably your best shot with the consequence being your self discipline being tested with a might of iron.
Algorithms are tuned so finely these days that ways around it won't work you have to not interact with the algorithms completely.
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One youtuber that starts with an "S".
引用元:https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/swa6o2/im_sick_and_tired_of_shitty_youtubers_uploading/
U niggas is mad dat youtubers are using game content as thumbnails?what do you want dem to use? Black screens