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.
Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
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Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#12I 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…
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#13Hey 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?
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#14I 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
#15Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#16I 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…
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
#17I 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…
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#18EDIT: @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…
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#19I 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…
Re: Show HN: YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions
#20I 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
And we pretend it's "AI". It's horrible.