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Comment by zuzululu

7 hours ago

This is a welcome output, it is quite tiring to be stuck on Youtube for hours.

Anything that can:

- break the algorithm

- help reduce time on there

- discover organically

Would have a huge product market fit. We are all zonked from the algorithm saturation.

One thing I recently started doing is use the before: search filter

ex) playthroughs before: 2010

I think its really neat that we've had Youtube for such a long time its become sort of a Archive.org on its own

I especially take great joy in watching people with low subscriber count or Youtube videos from before 2015

I feel like that was the inflection point where you just had a lot of freedom to speak your mind without the permanently online crowd getting offended by everything.

Yes, I 100% agree with you. Thank you for bringing it up.

And date filter: that is a fun way to use YouTube. The search tab in NoSuggest lets you search for specific videos without recommendations creeping in around them, so you can do that kind of intentional digging. Date filtering isn't there though. And the feed only shows the latest 5 videos per channel so it won't surface older content.