this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
32 points (97.1% liked)

technology

23218 readers
2 users here now

On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Banging my head against the wall anymore trying to search for simple shit and the results being unrelated crap from big name tubers who've SEO'd the system to get their shit up top first.

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] edge@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Half the "results" it shows aren't even results, but "similar", "recommended", "previously watched" etc bullshit. Luckily you can hide them. Download Stylus and make a style for youtube with this:

ytd-shelf-renderer {
    display: none;
}

Edit: actually you can just use uBlock Origin if you already have that (you should). Just add www.youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer to your filters.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Google search has also got much worse

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

It has, now it's infested with fake chatgpt sites.

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

It's really cool to have to add "reddit" to a query to get a result written by a human.

[–] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Try adding site:youtube.com to the end of a regular search engine query

Works for finding shit on :reddit-logo:, havent tried youtube

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it's absolute dogshit at this point.

it was always worse than plain google search but I don't use it that much anymore so idk

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

When searching for something obscure I find that sorting by upload date cuts the irrelevant crap out