How I make youtube bearable:
- subscribe through RSS only
- block all 'related videos' boxes with the picker tool from ublock
To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
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Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
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YouTube's KPIs for promoting videos are totally off base in my opinion. They use click through rates and watch time as key indicators, which can easily be manipulated by bots, which is pretty obvious now as rampant on the platform with popular videos showing millions and billions of views, while the majority of posts (from small creators only get 100 or less views over years on the platform. On YouTube, you get throw…
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Please disclose the fact that finclout is a product you are invested in when advertising it on here.
Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
#73While we are here, is there a service that provides me with list of newly uploaded youtube videos? In my mother tongue (south indian language), I have many interesting channels but youtube does not surface them by default. I just want to go through the list and write an algorithm to filter them out based on mypreferences. Is there somebody who scrapes them youtube and sells the data
Does the subscribe feature do what you are looking for?
Subscribe does not help me in discovering new channels on topics I want.
Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
#74How I make youtube bearable: - subscribe through RSS only - block all 'related videos' boxes with the picker tool from ublock
Or just use Newpipe/Piped :).
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Please disclose the fact that finclout is a product you are invested in when advertising it on here.
The irony is that this is exactly the problem of current social media. Everyone can comment on everything in any way they like and there is no way to validate their affiliations, intentions, or sponsorships on scale.
Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
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Don't forget how you get five or six results from your search term before it starts listing random videos like it has ADHD.
I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement. On a similar note, I've started noticing the third video in the "related videos" section on the right-hand sidebar is usually a new video with _extremely_ clickbait and inflammatory titles - sometimes with little connection to the topics I usually watch. They're extremely distracting so I've set up a uBlock filter for these: `www.youtube.com##ytd-compact-v…
> I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement.
I sometimes wonder if the opposite is true - that the PMs can convince the upper managment that users are staying on the website longer with all those stupid as fuck shit changes, but in reality they are there longer because it's increasingly more difficult to find anything you are looking for
Sort of 'When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure'
Re: To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
#77I did a youtube search for: attaching a prehung door and intitle: attaching a prehung door and the results are identical (for me at least). The results are also extremely relevant and concise in showing me how to install a prehung door. I am not really sure what people mean. Are people asking youtube to find videos that don't exist? like "how to make tritan plastic"
I just did "tour de france 2022 stage 4" and "intitle: tour de france 2022 stage 4". For me the results are close but notably the first several results went from an average video length of ~4 minutes to ~40 minutes, including someone's two-hour-long stream.
Maybe it really depends on what you're searching for. But I also rarely see many irrelevant results, including for this search.
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#78Is it possible to build a third party YouTube search by scraping a) YouTube and b) the user’s watch history? To me it seems like there’s some mid-to-low hanging fruit there. YT’s recommender fails to understand when a video is part of a series so often I almost have to think it’s intentional. Also recommending videos I’ve already watched in my homepage feed? What? What bugs me the most is that it wasn’t always this b…
Certaily gotta be against youtube's TOS and it'll get shut down
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#79YouTube'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.
Firefox plugin to remove distracting crap[2] such as 'related results' on search pages. [2]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
If you use uBlock Origin you can remove most cruft by adding these rules to Settings > My filters:
youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element
youtube.com###hover-overlays
youtube.com##yt-icon.ytd-badge-supported-renderer
youtube.com###related
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#80While we are here, is there a service that provides me with list of newly uploaded youtube videos? In my mother tongue (south indian language), I have many interesting channels but youtube does not surface them by default. I just want to go through the list and write an algorithm to filter them out based on mypreferences. Is there somebody who scrapes them youtube and sells the data
I use NewPipe on Android and it has an option to show a chronological list of all new videos from all channels I'm subscribed to.