All this does it generate a search term from what you put in which you can do pretty easily yourself
Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
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#153I feel like we have reached a point where Youtube can just remove the search fields and let their algorithms do its thing.
The last time I tried YTs search field was when I was trying to find an older video in my history. Nothing, even if I typed down the exact keywords. Nothing. Luckily, I found it through myactivity.google.com.
Its actually kind of fascinating how a huge enterprise like Youtube can ruin a feature to the point that its actually useless.
What they are good at is pushing irrelevant content everywhere, if I scroll to the bottom of my playlist, there is a suggestions feed. If I search something, after a couple of results, it turns into a suggestion feed. Even my subscribers feed is now a recommendations system at the top instead of just displaying in chronological order.
If it wasn’t for their dominance in the market, I would have left long time ago. But I am stuck there, because the creators are there.
uBlock and Sponsorblock is a bless.
I am curious if there is alternative frontends to youtube that also allows me to sign in with my Googlw account and access all my playlist, likes, watch later etc.
Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
#154I feel like we have reached a point where Youtube can just remove the search fields and let their algorithms do its thing. The last time I tried YTs search field was when I was trying to find an older video in my history. Nothing, even if I typed down the exact keywords. Nothing. Luckily, I found it through myactivity.google.com. Its actually kind of fascinating how a huge enterprise like Youtube can ruin a feature t…
> I am stuck there, because the creators are there.
Don’t make this mistake. You are not “stuck” - you’re making a choice. You can also choose to seek other materials elsewhere to stay entertained.
Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
#155I feel like we have reached a point where Youtube can just remove the search fields and let their algorithms do its thing. The last time I tried YTs search field was when I was trying to find an older video in my history. Nothing, even if I typed down the exact keywords. Nothing. Luckily, I found it through myactivity.google.com. Its actually kind of fascinating how a huge enterprise like Youtube can ruin a feature t…
> Its actually kind of fascinating how a huge enterprise like Youtube can ruin a feature to the point that its actually useless.
For the people in charge of engagement at YouTube, making search useless is a feature. If most people don’t get value from search then they’ll resign and be forced into following the algorithm, which is how Google wants you to consume YouTube.
Similar reason why streaming providers keep making it more difficult to find your previously watched list.
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#156Ooh. I despise how YouTube removes videos from my saved videos list, “Unavailable videos were removed”. YouTube is crap.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the chann…
Amazon is the same now. I can't find books on it that I know for sure exist on it. It always pushes something else first.
Search by ISBN works as expected for books
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#158Would it be possible to toggle the search to exclude all videos with emojis in their title?
I've noticed that every YouTube video containing one or more emojis in their title are AI generated spam.
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#159Search is the reason I stopped watching youtube, I used to view and discover so many nice stuff in there, tutorials, new hobbies, new music, new creators with different interests, etc but now it's pretty much impossible to find, you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating It got so bad that even searching the f…
What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the chann…
Perhaps this is due to Youtube's alternate titles or A/B/C testing scheme feature?
YT videos have a canonical title, but can have other one assigned randomly (as well as alternate thumbnails). If you're in the B group you might have gotten the B title, but search might only look through canonical titles?
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#160Search is the reason I stopped watching youtube, I used to view and discover so many nice stuff in there, tutorials, new hobbies, new music, new creators with different interests, etc but now it's pretty much impossible to find, you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating It got so bad that even searching the f…
https://freetubeapp.io/ Advanced search works. Also auto-skipped sponsored content, thumbnails directly from video content, no google account to use it, subscribe works, no ads and many more...
FreeTube has been extremely slow with loading videos for me. Otherwise it's a killer app and I would use it if it was possible to connect my premium account login to it.