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Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#111

I just want fewer ads. So many ads and sponsors. 10-15 second intro ads, then 10-second middle ads, and then ending ads. ANd then also sponsorship ads. I know there are extensions that can block some of these, but it's so aggravating too.

youtube premium is awesome. I can't recommend it enough.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#112
I'm suprised to see that some say Youtube's search is bad. I often find myself wishing that that I could get a youtube level of accuracy in my Google searches. I don't usually scroll to find the result I'm looking for. I tend to find the big view and small view videos with the same level ease.

*Also a premium subscriber. Youtube in many ways is a necessary part of this version of the internet experience and I detest having to sit through all the ads...if I have to pay $10/month seems fair to me. Just my 02 cents.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#113

I just want fewer ads. So many ads and sponsors. 10-15 second intro ads, then 10-second middle ads, and then ending ads. ANd then also sponsorship ads. I know there are extensions that can block some of these, but it's so aggravating too.

youtube premium is awesome. I can't recommend it enough.

I'm a YouTube Premium subscriber, but the one thing that would make me feel good about the subscription would be a way to block channels that show sponsored ads, even manually -- I pay money to avoid ads, and I understand that they can't, or choose not to, mark those videos that have ads anyway, but give me the tools to do it myself. (It looks like this might be possible in a browser, but Apple TV is my primary client, and the Apple TV app gets actively worse with each release...)

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#114

I just want fewer ads. So many ads and sponsors. 10-15 second intro ads, then 10-second middle ads, and then ending ads. ANd then also sponsorship ads. I know there are extensions that can block some of these, but it's so aggravating too.

youtube premium is awesome. I can't recommend it enough.

I've been a YouTube premium subscribe for some number of years.

I easily watch 10 to 15 hours or more of video on YouTube each month, probably per week.

Plus YouTube Music makes it the best value streaming service I pay for.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#115

I just want fewer ads. So many ads and sponsors. 10-15 second intro ads, then 10-second middle ads, and then ending ads. ANd then also sponsorship ads. I know there are extensions that can block some of these, but it's so aggravating too.

hey I am using Firefox, by uBlock Origin, I never saw even an ad for years, you can try this. I guess Chrome browser also got it.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#116

I just want fewer ads. So many ads and sponsors. 10-15 second intro ads, then 10-second middle ads, and then ending ads. ANd then also sponsorship ads. I know there are extensions that can block some of these, but it's so aggravating too.

Who doesn't have uBlock Origin in this day and age? It blocks essentially every ad that Youtube pushes. Now, if you want no sponsors as well, go for SponsorBlock, it skips parts of the video marked as "sponsor" etc.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#117
post #7

YouTube's search is horrible. No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query, neither results from my country when I specifically type in English and my whole UI is in English and I never watch non-English content while logged in.

I'm old enough to remember when Google was popular because of its search quality.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#118
post #116

I just want fewer ads. So many ads and sponsors. 10-15 second intro ads, then 10-second middle ads, and then ending ads. ANd then also sponsorship ads. I know there are extensions that can block some of these, but it's so aggravating too.

Who doesn't have uBlock Origin in this day and age? It blocks essentially every ad that Youtube pushes. Now, if you want no sponsors as well, go for SponsorBlock, it skips parts of the video marked as "sponsor" etc.

Not everyone watches youtube on their computer.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#119
post #7

YouTube's search is horrible. No, I don't want "related results" that are completely unrelated to my query, neither results from my country when I specifically type in English and my whole UI is in English and I never watch non-English content while logged in.

I'm old enough to remember when Google was popular because of its search quality.

I'm old enough to remember when YouTube search results about political or current events weren't curated or weighted toward mainstream media takes.

Searching for an 'unperson' will always return zero results nowadays. Edit: I guess that is just for Facebook now but my point stands. The results for certain searches are manipulated manually whether easily noticeable or not.

Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”

#120

I'm suprised to see that some say Youtube's search is bad. I often find myself wishing that that I could get a youtube level of accuracy in my Google searches. I don't usually scroll to find the result I'm looking for. I tend to find the big view and small view videos with the same level ease. *Also a premium subscriber. Youtube in many ways is a necessary part of this version of the internet experience and I detest…

The search is usually pretty good to surface the top few results.

But the use case I have, that seems to consistently work poorly, is when I'm looking for all videos that contain a certain person and search by name. In these cases, YouTube shows you the top few results (which are typically the most viewed clips that match the query), then it shows you "related" videos (which typically don't contain that person at all), then it shows you videos that you have previously watched (I don't understand why). Eventually, if you keep scrolling down, you get another few batches of results ranked in the same way and potentially you might get all the relevant results. It's just quite hard to do so.

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