I’ve noticed that the search results are getting less and less relevant to what I’m actually looking for. I guess one day the search bar will disappear like the headphone jack of the iPhone.

Youtube search results have been garbage for a while now :(

I get nothing. Google is all pissy I turned off history and refuse to use their app. So they refuse to suggest anything.

The upside is no bloat and no ads, just have to know a topic.

What I have noticed is that if you add “before:2025” (or any other future date) it doesn’t show the unrelated stuff.

Try piped. Your feed is only what you subscribe to and theres a toggle to hide shorts

Ya'll need FreeTube.

• Here's an extension which turns YouTube into an Invidious-like site, removing all addicting elements.
• If you're using Linux, I wrote the youtube-tui a few years back, very similar to the extension where you get nothing but the search bar and subscriptions.

1 minute videos aren't put into the shorts interface, so it's not YouTube noticing that you disabled shorts but rather some YouTuber trying to follow the algorithm using a channel they made for shorts and mistakenly (I assume) uploading a video longer than minute on it. All such videos appear as normal videos instead of as shorts.

Google is terrible though, so I understand why you would think that.

My three biggest problems with YouTube are:

• It sucks on desktops/laptops with bigger UI scaling enabled, some stuff just doesn't fit.

• The search function on YouTube is useless and completely broken. Instead of searching normally it:

  1. Repeats same results multiple times;

  2. Display unrelated Shorts nobody asked for;

  3. Instead of displaying relevant results it shows stuff you have already watched or picked by YouTube algorithm.

• You can't skip sponsored segments with YouTube Premium. You need SponsorBlock browser extension for that.

Firefox, uBlock Origin, on a Linux Desktop. I have none of these problems and have filters to hide shorts, endcards, autoplay, ambient mode. And I block all cookies from Youtube/Google. Works perfectly.

I simply just stopped searching or clicking on anything I'm not subbed to while logged in. It's like you commit a crime when you click something. Next ~~then~~ thing you know, that same fucking channel is following everywhere you go, in the home page and under every video you watch. Fuck google and fuck all this enshitification campaign the internet is undergoing

Unusable for me with ads as well. Grey loading screen and choppy audio instead of actually loading ads, never gets to the video. If I reopen the video a few times to skip the ad the video loads fine. No problems with online gaming, streaming services, etc so I know it's their shit Roku app and ad network and not me. Ad blockers make it actually usable.

Their incompetence opens room for other platforms

soon google will block ALL forms of front ends

I get usable results for "Boards of Canada". You've got some personal problems happening.

May I ask the name(s) of these extension(s)? Currently having this issue and that’s why I mainly use MPV to load my music playlist on.

Has been for years already sadly. I recommend https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local to watch directly and https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl to download. They both remove the dark patterns trying to abuse the attention of viewers.

also be sure to disable cookies on youtube, it gets rid of weird suggestions and usually only suggests videos related to the current one

I remembered there was a thing that came out not too long ago that proved that silicon valley executives literally don't know what consent is.