Feel like you have something to post, but it's not really relevant to any of the current communities, and you don't feel like it's worth making an entirely new community just to post it? This is the place for that.
NSFW content is allowed in this community so long as you mark it as per site rules.
I spent 2 months looking for a music video I swear I'd watched. YouTube's watch history did not help at all, not to mention it would sometimes break while scrolling so I couldn't get that far.
I finally found it by exporting my Google Takeout data, selecting only YouTube data, and then loading the watch history file in a text editor and searching for things like "music video" and "official video". I found it in about 2 minutes.
With the amount of "recommendation" they are shoving into our face I wouldn't be surprised they intentionally neglected the history search function because they want you to watch new stuff, preferably the garbage they are pushing to you.
And to top it all off, I can’t even find the video I want because YouTube ruined the actual fucking search by polluting it with literally and intentionally irrelevant garbage after like 4 results
Their intention can't get more obvious that that, isn't it?
Youtube's watch history search is weird. I need to type the exact title or it wouldn't show up, meanwhile the other search bar is much more flexible.
YouTube ruined the actual fucking search by polluting it with literally and intentionally irrelevant garbage after like 4 results
I use Piped for that. It could return all result without adding the barely-related videos. https://piped.video is the official instance. There are also other instances.
Download every video that you think is worth watching again with yt-dlp. Youtube is dying a slow, painful death right now. Probably a topic for another thread, but I believe Google will as well.