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YouTube is surprisingly unusable for indexing historical content. There used to be alternative UIs for the site but I assume Google over time killed those off while they dark patterned their own UI into being a TikTok stream of consciousness UI. I don’t mind that flavor for discovery of new content, but it is surprising that they seem to intentionally make older content inaccessible.

PBS space time is a perfect example of how badly it interferes with the quantity of the content. The episodes cross link and build on each other, but finding X episode about Y is almost impossible. You can’t apparently even search a single channels content by string.




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