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Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests.

My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useless for what I was searching before and what I'm searching now.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

#12

I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests. My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useles…

But that's probably also how you get really interesting, yet somewhat-random-somewhat-related suggestions.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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Hey all, it's very basic problem that I aimed to fix with my first ever extension. I designed it to fix YouTube search. It removes "For you", "Related to your search" and other distractions from your results. It also fine tunes some visual interface elements and aims to synchronize the design language. I realize there will always be bugs despite my best attempt so I would be greatly appreciative of your suggestions a…

As other commenter mentioned there's no source, though under Versions it states "Source code released under MIT/X11 License". Do you have a link?

I think he forgot to answer you but OP mentioned it elsewhere on the thread[1].

[1]https://gitlab.com/phoennix/youtubesearchfix

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests. My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useles…

But that's probably also how you get really interesting, yet somewhat-random-somewhat-related suggestions.

Agreed, I've discovered some really nice tangentially related videos/channels that way. That said, it should be a strict opt-in model presented on the settings dropdown not a Here-is-a-feature-we-think-you-will-like-so-you-have-to-use-it.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests. My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useles…

This comment prompted me to actually look because i've noticed the same kind of thing and it's frustrating as hell.

It seems like a hassle, but I did manage to find the youtube watch and search history where you can remove individual videos and searches from their algorithms. It's not very user friendly and doesn't give a ton of control, but it looks like it could help at least keep those weird one time searches from cluttering things up.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests. My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useles…

There does seem a lot of that kinda shit nowadays. Websites thinking they know what you mean. Just search what i typed pleased, maybe if its got zero results then sure...have a guess what you think i intended. So often you can't search entire phrases of things, it'll arbitarily pick one word from your search and show you results on that. So annoying

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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EDIT: @OP I do not see a link to the source for the addon. I think a lot of users would be vary of installing closed-source addons. This is great, some YouTube features are just so annoying. And I cannot disable them even though I pay for YouTube premium. An alternative to this is to add this to your ublock origin list: www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer it seems to be working, but I do not…

> closed-source addons wget https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3611176/youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi unzip youtube_distractfree-0.1-an+fx.xpi You'll find yt.css and ytt.js which aren't minimized/obfuscated. Browser extensions/addons are about as "closed source" as websites, or even less so in most cases (let's ignore wasm-powered websites or extensions for a second). Not linking to a GitHub reposi…

It's nice that one can do this, but I wish I didn't need to. Mozilla could easily add a way to view the source online. This would be much more convenient and obvious that it's possible.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests. My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useles…

I rarely search YouTube directly so I haven’t noticed that. Instead I search for « whatever I’m looking for YouTube » on ddg and I don’t get these irrelevant results because YT doesn’t have my search history to mess with.

Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions

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I just notice how messed up the search is very recently. One of the things that it does is that it uses search terms from previous searches in the results for a specific search, it's awful for people with diverse weird interests. My example I was searching for "primitive garden irrigation systems" after searching for some "city building games". Half of my results were "water canals in city skylines". It's both useles…

There does seem a lot of that kinda shit nowadays. Websites thinking they know what you mean. Just search what i typed pleased, maybe if its got zero results then sure...have a guess what you think i intended. So often you can't search entire phrases of things, it'll arbitarily pick one word from your search and show you results on that. So annoying

>There does seem a lot of that kinda shit nowadays. Websites thinking they know what you mean.

And we pretend it's "AI". It's horrible.

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