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Charles de Gaulle was such an incredible man, nearly 60 years after his death he still keeps influencing the direction of France (for the better)

This is just adding the hidden filters such as

before:[date]: Finds videos uploaded before a specific date.

Example: space exploration before:2020-01-01

after:[date]: Finds videos uploaded after a specific date.

Example: tech news after:2024-01-01

To an UI, right?


One of the problems with YouTube seach is that they also stop showing you what you searched for after a couple of videos, instead you get the same crap you find on the homepage, which is bewildering.

Can't remember where I got them, but there's some uBO rules that really help on that front:

  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Related to your search/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Related to your searches/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/From related searches/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/People also watched/)
  youtube.com###contents > ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/For you/)
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Watch again/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-horizontal-card-list-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Searches related to/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer.style-scope:has(span:has-text(/Learn while you\'re at home/i))
  youtube.com##ytd-horizontal-card-list-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope
  youtube.com###secondary > .ytd-two-column-search-results-renderer
  youtube.com###contents > .ytd-secondary-search-container-renderer.style-scope
  youtube.com##ytd-shelf-renderer:has-text(/Previously watched/)
Also got some other rules from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44332976

This all shouldn't be necessary, but alas...


You're basically right, it's just a UI for the old search filters, at least for the ones that still work today.

One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to expose these hidden filters, and to hide recommended videos + redirect the homepage to the subscriptions tab.

What extension exposes the hidden filters???

Most definitely not the one he's talking about. But, I'll mention my extension. It exposes the hidden date operators through Youtube's search filter menu, allows searching comments and finding the most popular video's from a channel within the last year, etc.

https://github.com/polywock/youtubeEye


You could probably vibe-code it if it doesn't exist. You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request. Hard part is creating the interface for it. Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected.

> One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to ...

< [which one]

> vibe-code it if it doesn't exist

So it doesn't exist? I don't understand what I'm reading. (Plus the suggestion to create more slopware)


> You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request

> Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my comment that it's a very trivial feature. Would you want a lmgtfy link instead?

edit: The irony that this very submission is probably AI generated? There's no link to their source code, and there's a tab titled "AI Generator" for AI generated playlists?


I think there's been a break in this conversation somewhere.

You said: One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to expose these hidden filters

Someone asked you to name the extension.

Then you go on saying it's easy to vibe code and you're not here to hold hands?

Okay, so does the extension exist or not?


Yes, there are plenty of them.

I think you heard "vibe-code" and immediately went out of your way to act obtuse, even though I was using it as an example of how simple it is to show these "hidden" filters.


(Note you're not replying to the same person, so this "you" is me and not them.)

Yes, I find the suggestion to waste a bunch of energy creating a mediocre extension that might actually work, when there is apparently an existing one that you are already happy with, a bit silly. But that wasn't the contradiction I was pointing out


As long I doesn't shove "shorts" or "other people watched" in the result list, it's an improvement. Sometimes the results are so egregious and completely unrelated to the search terms that I feel like youtube wants to piss me off on purpose. I don't want to be searching some quantum physics video and get videos of some barely clothed women in Miami, I fail to see how it is related...

Enshittification is the reason

I think that it's a fair title - it takes the "hidden" search terms and brings them to the surface for users.

The (default) YouTube search is barely useful

They have made a search WITH the advanced features available

Everything as advertised (IMO)


Starting with Metro every Windows UI framework has been beyond ugly. there's just something so backwards over how nice the UI was in Windows 7, I simply can't understand it.

Metro was created partly to run smooothly on cheap Atom tablets and Windows Phones. Then Microsoft shifted their focus elsewhere and iOS 7/OS X Yosemite happened so they have all the reasons to stay flat.

Updated apps look fine, but the majority aren't. And with that bizarre "Show More Options" nesting in the Windows 11 context menu it almost seemed like Microsoft is no longer capable of upgrading old components in place.


I became complete garbage at video games the moment I bought a 27 inch monitor.

I also can't ever focus on doing tasks like programming and such since I got my big monitor.

Although I definitely can't give up my 3 27 inch monitors...


Nope, which is why Chrome exists, to allow Google to do this. Which is why you should avoid chromium.

Starship is the biggest scam in the history of spaceflight, it was never about getting to the moon or mars or even towards other points on Earth (or space tourism) but lowering the cost of sending military and other dual use technologies to Low Earth Orbit.

Starlink is close to causing the kessler syndrome. https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/3...

When I was young and naive I believed Elon, at least I've figured out his shtick now, plus his connections with that man.

Regulate them.


"abuse like bots, scraping, fraud, and other attempts to misuse the platform"

This has to be a joke, right?


I really can't tell for sure (new user posting a ridiculously hypocritical corporate message on a Sunday) but if GP actually works for OpenAI the lack of self-awareness is seriously striking

How?

Because OpenAI built their entire business around shamelessly scraping anything that had bits on it.

Maybe. But scraping isn't abuse. Seems a bit different?

Quoting the OP

> These checks are part of how we protect our first-party products from abuse like bots, scraping, fraud, and other attempts to misuse the platform.

That implies that OpenAI (or at least this employee) considers scraping abuse.


Given that the scraping doesn't do any rate limiting and pisses on robots.txt, yes it is abuse

Is there any evidence OpenAI has been ignoring robots.txt for scraping purposes? AFAIK the main sources of that traffic are still unknown.

The top comment categorized scraping as abuse ("abuse such as [...] scraping") - that's precisely why some accuse its author of lack of self awareness.

Bahaha.

The last time I liked Opera was before they switched to Chromium, I remember how awesome old Opera + Windows 7 aero was, the entire browser was nearly transparent


I have my sennheiser bluetooth headphones connected to windows 11, for whatever reason, 90% of the time, I move the slider on Windows 11 and it ignores completely the sound on my headphones, just great working products. I have to use the physical buttons on my headphones like a caveman


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