#youtube search

[iamafanofcartoons]

Curate your YouTube search and recommendations

Tell me if you've had this problem before. You click on some video, any video, looking at something positive. And all of a sudden, you're spammed with dozens of negative videos in your recommendations. And no matter how many “Not interested” or “Don't recommend channel” that you click, YouTube still forces them on you. Or maybe you're looking for something in YouTube search, but you get too much clickbait videos, or hate-watch videos? And you have to scroll through everything?

Or maybe people have used different tags to force them into your search options, giving you tons of options that aren't related to what you are searching for. Wouldn't it be nice if you could block these channels and videos the same way you block people on social media?

Unfortunately, YouTube's existence relies on Ad revenue exclusively, hence why their channel blockers won't work, and reporting channels or videos won't accomplish anything if those channels and videos don't harm YouTube's reputation or ad revenue.

The larger a channel gets, the less chance of YouTube taking action against them. Hence why very large hate-channels and videos will swarm into searches.

Fortunately, there are tools called Browser Extensions or Add-Ons that allow you to have your browsers be able to add that specific block button option.

But...wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to look for those tools? Why do we need such an option? Why can't YouTube give us that option in the first place?

In any case, the resources DO exist. You just have to look for them on Google Search. Blocktube is one such tool, and you can look it up on Google Search to confirm what I have shown here.

I know that for Phones you’ll need something called Youtube Vanced, also researchable on Google.

Credit goes to https://www.tumblr.com/rwby-cinder-blog/620199907993714688 

I’m just sick and tired of YouTube not doing a thing about a glaring problem on its increasingly problematic platform.

Edit: Dear people who are upset with hogwarts legacy? These tools are for you.

[standardquip]

Youtube search fixer. Make youtube search suck less. I reblogged this at some point, but I must not have tagged it well because I can never find it when I'm searching. So I'm just making my own post now with a ton of tags. It has some additional stuff too, like taking out the shorts section.

[leviathis-krade]

youtube's search function is absolute HELL right now.

it jams in adverts, unrelated "fOr YoU" videos, and straight up pr0n which isnt allowed on the website to begin with...

what the fuck.

[ladyjudica]

Making YouTube Search Less Awful

So I got very tired of wading through "People also watched" and "Recommended for you" and whatever other bullshit YouTube decides to put in search results. I discovered an old Reddit post where user YORAMRW advised sorting results by something other than relevance, then sorting by relevance again. User FrezNelson discovered that you can also add "&sp=CAASAhAB" to the end of search results. Praise be, these work, and now my YouTube search is actually usable again.

(Educational note: I'm tagging this as accessibility because this is a genuine difficulty for disabled people. For neurodiverse people, the search additions create additional distraction and sensory overload. Those using screenreaders have to tab through and listen to all the extra nonsense, rather than scanning and skipping like many sighted people can. There are likely other problems I'm not thinking of now.)

Summary Either sort search results by something else, and then sort by relevance again, or paste "&sp=CAASAhAB" at the end. Also bad design is inaccessible and ableist.

[simpingwriter]

*6 year old Faith watching Alfred pour Draino down her bedroom's bathroom sink*

Faith: "What's that?"

Alfred: "It dissolves whatever gunk is clogging up your drain again, Lady Faith."

Faith, in childlike fascination: "cool...even the screwdriver down there?"

Alfred: "The what-"

[4furiousracoon]

Anyone want to talk about how Amazon search results work? Work might not be the right word.

[yourmajestybee]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN

[notarabeiia]

when i search something on youtube and it just shwos me a billion unrelated shorts and a bunch of ai videos.

fix your fucking algorithm youtube.

[scaredofmyocs]

um. hm. i dont think thats the song. just a hunch

[all-4-wincest]

OMG, I found the post I was talking about that inspired me to look on YouTube to find a video that proves your point about Sam wanting to “I wanna fuck you like an animal” @scaryorganmusic !! I hope you have the time to check it out. You and your post did inspire my, very pleasurable search!!

XOXO, Liz

this has been a post

[dreamclod]

Haha yes! The YouTube search "for you" part is totally useful! It toootally didn't show me cropped gacha porn where a guy gets fucked by a dog :) haha

[iamafanofcartoons]

If you don’t want to see the various anti-rwby videos on youtube, or anti-(insert something here) Remember that while Youtube may not let you block channels, There ARE channel-blocker extensions or add-ons that let you block the haters from your youtube feed, search, and recommendations, forever!

Edit: Please reblog if you want to share this resource

[hindbodes]

[princesadulcinea]

Depuis hier, l'intro en boucle dans la cabeza

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[mothcpu]

now, is your body you?