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by Baljhin 853 days ago
'Now'??!? Youtube's search has been literally broken for more than a year, several of us mentioned this on HN months ago.

e.g. Y-search used to honor the operators like 'intitle:' and `|` like G-search, but that functionality is long gone. I'm not even convinced '-' works anymore.

Nothing's gonna save their query system except Google's backend engineers. Good luck waiting for that.

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Until then I highly recommend using userscripts/addons to bring some sanity back to using the platform:

'Block Youtube Users' : "hides videos of users/channels from home, search, related, and comments"

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/11057-block-youtube-users

~~ My favorite! It's like GHHbD[0] but from within Youtube.

[0] http://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

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'YouTube: Hide Watched Videos' by EvHaus : 'mask or hide visibility of watched videos and shorts'

https://github.com/EvHaus/youtube-hide-watched

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'Return WATCHED badge on Youtube (with custom text)' by q1k : "Brings back the WATCHED overlay to the videos you have already watched"

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/419722-return-watched-badge-o...

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'YouTube Clickbait-Buster' by hjk789 : "Check whether it's worth watching a video before actually clicking on it, by 'peeking' its visual or verbal content, description, comments, viewing the thumbnail in full-size and displaying the full title"

https://github.com/hjk789/Userscripts/tree/master/YouTube-Cl...

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'Youtube Scrollable Right Side Description' by sh3ll : "Description is moved on the right, expanded and scrollable (and a view-count is put under the player)" {FYI: if you use a white or light theme on YT, go into the script and change the view-count text to something dark}

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/452405-youtube-scrollable-rig...

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'Make "Videos" the default tab on Youtube channels', a contrib by Scriptchansky

https://greasyfork.org/en/discussions/requests/56798#comment...