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by _nalply 873 days ago
I found out with some iterations you get raw videos.

First check if negative filtering works. If not, give up straight away or use a different search engine.

Then add the term `-news`. This filters out a lot of these videos, but not all.

Look at the video headings. Most of them contain the name of the company. Add about three to five of them. Like this for example: `-NBC -"Fox Weather" -Guardian -CBC -CNN`.

Then just scroll about three pages till you find a raw video, or add more negative terms and repeat. Be careful not to accidentally exclude raw videos, for example if there is something about people guarding something, don't use `-Guardian` but perhaps `-"Guardian News"`.

Or just give up and don't watch Internet videos.

1 comments

You can still find things if you work really hard for it. But the point is that Google could give you better results, it knows how. It is CHOOSING not to because worse results for you means better profits for them.
sometimes i still use https://millionshort.com/ for filtering out those crap tier sites; web site search engine still means finding useful webpages - i hope the AI search engines do recognize that as a target to list actual useful sites vs the 1-summary-to-rule-them-all