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I have a bone to pick with the edited title this was submitted under. The article’s title is “YouTube, your feeds are broken”. The word “RSS” was added to the submission title. That’s factually incorrect: YouTube feeds are Atom, and have been since at least 2009. Even if they have from early days even to this day had a terrible habit of incorrectly labelling the tags with type="application/rss+xml" and title="RSS" or…
I see people are doing scripts or other things to remove shorts from their feeds, but there is a simpler solution. Take your RSS URL of a channel, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCxSGC9B... Replace the `channel_id` with `playlist_id` and replace `UC` with `UULF`. This prefix will only list normal videos: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFxSG...
I see people are doing scripts or other things to remove shorts from their feeds, but there is a simpler solution. Take your RSS URL of a channel, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCxSGC9B... Replace the `channel_id` with `playlist_id` and replace `UC` with `UULF`. This prefix will only list normal videos: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFxSG...
Any idea if there's a way to get the Shorts-only feed?
I have not verified this.
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> I wonder how they use these feeds if that's only internal. Perhaps they don't, it could be that the interface was written to a more flexible spec to allow for ongoing changes, and close to release they decided which features would be officially supported. In that case the method being used here is either deliberately kept around for potential future use, or is a bit of their tech debt. It may also be something that…
Then again, supported APIs from Google have exactly the same guarantees.
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They could also make money from them using micropayments. Free if there's a delay. Then split proceeds with creators.
Would that money be even remotely comparable to the engineering time spent on this, especially compared to the money they're making on ads?
"money making ads" I'm surprised they haven't made their own coin to go with that. Perhaps a new coin should be part of that micropayment culture. Look what happened with Binance coin because so many people were using the site already and they could roll one out.
In reality, they could have made so much money from Gmail account recovery too. All of Google's shelved projects - maybe all they need is an efficient micropayment system to slap on whatever they put out - Google Reader included.
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They could also make money from them using micropayments. Free if there's a delay. Then split proceeds with creators.
Can we not do things for fun anymore?
> Nobody asked for shorts in their feed This has been a big issue for me. I currently use RSS exclusively to view the YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to -- currently about 75 channels (and 27 nebula channels) -- and over half of my YouTube feeds are filled with several shorts (sometimes multiple ones by the same creator per day). Looking for hashtags in the title and marking those videos as read is essentially m…
Out of curiosity, are you filtering out shorts because of YouTube's terrible Shorts UI, or solely because of shorts' content quality?
Though for content that i follow, Almost every one of these shorts end up just being a snippet of a video they already posted, usually being used as a glorified ad for that existing video. It's just a waste of time.
> Nobody asked for shorts in their feed This has been a big issue for me. I currently use RSS exclusively to view the YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to -- currently about 75 channels (and 27 nebula channels) -- and over half of my YouTube feeds are filled with several shorts (sometimes multiple ones by the same creator per day). Looking for hashtags in the title and marking those videos as read is essentially m…
I see people are doing scripts or other things to remove shorts from their feeds, but there is a simpler solution. Take your RSS URL of a channel, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCxSGC9B ... Replace the `channel_id` with `playlist_id` and replace `UC` with `UULF`. This prefix will only list normal videos: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=UULFxSG ... ---- From this commen…
> Access to feeds from this network are restricted due to continued abuse of the service, which brings down the performance of feeds for everyone else. You'll need to use a verification token or use a different network to restore access Ahh, good to know that my regular ISP got banned for something I have no clue about. Can't even read the blog.
I really wish admins banned based on actual behavior instead of IP address != residential/mobile.