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Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by mosquitobiten »

maxxmod wrote: post #79
VenezuelaFree wrote: post #14

Search 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…

It doesn’t solve all the issues you mention, but YouTube Search Fixer [1] [2] is a browser extension that at least lets you remove irrelevant results, Shorts, live streams, and more from search. It makes results a bit more usable. Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with YouTube Search Fixer. I’m currently working on https://maxxmod.com , a YouTube-focused browser extension that will include search improvements, so I’ve r…

Just read the description and OMG soo much crap, thank you so much for this. I guess when I filter these dopamine leeches in my mind I kind of lump them together

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by throw7 »

maxxmod wrote: post #76
throw7 wrote: post #24

Just asking: Is there an open source project that I can self-host that can organize my current subscriptions into separate groups/categories and make things easy to view/hide/digest? Many moons ago, I could hover and hide a video I didn't want to see in my feed with a single click. Best UX user feature evar... it was gone in a week or two I feel. I'm kinda ashamed to say I have multiple youtube accounts to keep my sa…

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but Pocket Tube [1] [2] is a browser extension that lets you organize your subscriptions into custom groups. You can then browse non-algorithmic feeds showing the latest uploads from each group, which makes things much easier to manage and filter. Hope this helps. Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with Pocket Tube. I’m currently working on https://maxxmod.com , a YouTube-focused brow…

interesting. looking forward to the release.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by ddtaylor »

nonethewiser wrote: post #177
ddtaylor wrote: post #15

If anyone has a good solution to YouTube destroying all value of the Subscriptions page I am open ears. Until recently my consumption of YT was basically to go to my subscriptions page and see what new content had been released since I last watched YT.

>Until recently my consumption of YT was basically to go to my subscriptions page and see what new content had been released since I last watched YT. What is your subscription page now? I just checked mine and its just an ordered list of videos from channels I subscribe to ordered by most recent.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656418

Its still like this. Sadly mobile is the only place I get a "real" subscriptions page, probably because I'm using ReVanced.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by Gander5739 »

ssl-3 wrote: post #187
Gander5739 wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But as far as I can determine, often times is a misspelling of oftentimes.

I believe you may be correct, but they're both readable-enough. Like "cannot" vs "can not": One form may be more-correct, but both are very readable. Either way, it's easy enough to blame spell check on our personal pocket supercomputers for these things. (Every year or two, Google Keyboard on Android makes it its purpose to screw up "its" vs "it's". You type it the right way, you see it on the screen as being correc…

Cannot and can not are slightly different in that both are correct (in the prescriptivist sense, I suppose; arguably whatever gets the point across is correct). But there are cases where can not is more correct.

I use a keyboard (Thumb-Key to be precise) without autocorrect, though it doesn't stop me from making typing mistakes.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by wswope »

tyrust wrote: post #190
dns_snek wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no "scrolling down past the first 3 results" because everything after that is recommended garbage that's unrelated to the search query. And as they already said, "refining the search query" doesn't work because it wouldn't find the video even if they searched its exact title. Furthermore, search is fundamentally broken in that it translates your query and then tries to match every title in every language tha…

> Reading comments like this really shines a light on why Youtube is as bad as it is I have about as much say in YouTube as you do. In the org tree, the lowest common ancestor between me and YouTube is Sundar. My original comment was a joke about the fact that someone felt as if they were "forced" to watch something. It was more of a comment on consumer attitude than YouTube itself. I'm sorry YT isn't working well fo…

> I'm sorry YT isn't working well for y'all. That said, expecting some grunt employee like me to feel personally responsible (or even "ashamed"??) is ridiculous.

The point of a company is what it does: The money in your paycheck comes from anti-competitive behavior, denying accountability and customer support to your users, and yes, even the enshittification of Youtube.

Deny it all you want, but you have every opportunity to walk away and do something better for society with your life if you so choose.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by KellyCriterion »

adito wrote: post #65
VenezuelaFree wrote: post #14

Search 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…

I suspect YT-Search is broken by intention

There is no way that this billion company isnt/cant be able to build a working search for its video titles&texts.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by lucb1e »

prophesi wrote: post #180
tredre3 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think there's been a break in this conversation somewhere. You said: One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to expose these hidden filters Someone asked you to name the extension. Then you go on saying it's easy to vibe code and you're not here to hold hands? Okay, so does the extension exist or not?

Yes, there are plenty of them. I think you heard "vibe-code" and immediately went out of your way to act obtuse, even though I was using it as an example of how simple it is to show these "hidden" filters.

(Note you're not replying to the same person, so this "you" is me and not them.)

Yes, I find the suggestion to waste a bunch of energy creating a mediocre extension that might actually work, when there is apparently an existing one that you are already happy with, a bit silly. But that wasn't the contradiction I was pointing out

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