Clickbait title, but it basically says caffeine protects against dementia by kicking amyloid protein out of the brain. So yay! Coffee is good for you again!

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    I might be a purist and miss out on a lot of good videos. But when I see a clickbait title and thumbnail I refuse to watch it. It just doesn’t sit right that someone would make a quality video and then use slop to promote it. 😞

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      Counterpoint: this is entirely YouTube/algorithms’ fault, forcing legitimate creators who make quality, well researched content, to begrudgingly make clickbait titles and thumbnails just to not be dropped in search results.

      Source: creators begrudgingly complaining they now have to make clickbaity titles to appear in searches, recommended, etc.

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      The DeArrow extension fixes that. You can choose random thumbnails or crowd sourced ones and it replaces titles with crowd sourced alternatives that actually describe the video.

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        DeArrow is good and all but I disabled it. I want to see what their thumbnail and titles are so I can block them altogether.

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      You’re not alone in this. I always stay away from watching videos or reading articles with click bait titles. Maybe we are just naturally contrary.

      “I know what you’re doing, I know you’re trying to manipulate me, you know what? Just because of that, I’m going to do the opposite of what you want me to do now.”

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    Iirc the amyloid hypothesis is no longer thought to be very valid, nor have anti-amyloid treatments been shown to be effective at reducing/treating/preventing Alzheimer’s and related diseases

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    Man, this will be interesting when it’s important enough to have an article written about it