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SolarNialamide@lemm.ee 1 year agoI don’t even care about the shorts showing up in search results. What really irks me is that you get like 3 videos related to search results, then some random unrelated shit, 3 relevant videos, more unrelated garbage, and then the rest of the actually relevant videos. I am specifically searching for something, just show me the damn thing.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes. The way the default search now works is that, when you search you get:
If you want to get just your search results, cutting away shorts, playlists, and the recommendations that take up the majority of the search page, you’ll have to open up the filters and click on “videos” on the cl tent type list. Then you actually get to see the search results.
SolarNialamide@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thanks for the tip, I’ll try that next time. Even though it’s infuriating that it’s necessary in the first place