Poll of the Day > We need a youtube extension that takes you back in time...

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I want to see my subscriber feed on this day 10 years ago.

I'd like this feature simply to undo the damage my kid watching YouTube under my account does. Nothing against Mr Beast and hamster maze videos, but I don't want those suggestions on my algorithm

Idiot_Savant posted...

I'd like this feature simply to undo the damage my kid watching YouTube under my account does. Nothing against Mr Beast and hamster maze videos, but I don't want those suggestions on my algorithm

You can delete videos from your YouTube history.

Youtube is crap now sad to say.

The algorithm guesses what you want to watch. Only you know for sure what you want to watch so you need to tell the algorithm that. You do this by watching said videos you want to watch, subscribing, removing unwanted videos from your watch history, and selecting Not Interested and/or Don't Recommend Channel on recommendations you don't want. Yes, it requires some effort from you, but anything worth having in this world requires some effort.

I can't find anything for it on Google.

Welp, guess I'll do it myself
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/implementation/subscriptions

Just going to make a website.

So if I were to cache all videos fetched, and each metadata would be 1kb in a SQL DB, that would be, at most

1,000,000,000 videos * 1kb = 1 terabyte

Alternatively, I find a way to not do that, which may not be possible if Youtube's API does not accommodate a "back in time" parameter. In order to not hit the API limit, I will have the endpoints called from the user's computer. When they do this, they will send the data back to me so I can update my database. If the data exists in my DB I will send it from there instead. Most likely I'll be using the same 1 GB of data over and over from popular channels.

I'm thinking a 2 TB SSD plugged into my Raspberry Pi 4 to run the whole thing. I will learn React, since I want that on my resume.

Too bad we can't have a GameFAQs extension that lets us post back in 2007 or so.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Too bad we can't have a GameFAQs extension that lets us post back in 2007 or so.

I make a chatgpt based algo that builds profiles on posters from that time period and lets you interact with them, while adjusting their text slightly based on what you say, at times fully responding but mostly sticking to historic data.

You have now replaced your human interaction with AI. You have 2 more wishes.

my favorites list goes all the way back to the mid/late 2000s when I first started watching videos

Sahuagin posted...

my favorites list goes all the way back to the mid/late 2000s when I first started watching videos

So it would be cool, right?

I want to get my old feed back. It's been so long it'd be like videos you haven't watched before. You would have twice the content.

Lots of YouTubers don't make content I like anymore.

I guess you want recommendations as if it was 2008? I'm not sure if that would be better. everything would be low res for one thing. but also my interests have evolved a lot since then. 90% of what I watch is current stuff being released at the present.