Mastodawn

RE: https://sunny.garden/@NovemDecimal/116244998823587027

Update: The search page "refreshing multiple times" seem to come from my extension called Locked In (yes, a bit of an interesting name) which removes all of the nonsense such as YouTube homepage, shorts and end feed.

Turns out it got an update recently and it added an option which is enabled by default called "Remove Recommended Videos", I know it removes the videos in the search page, not sure what is considered as "recommended videos" though.

The thing is, it hides so many videos that the page reaches instantly to the bottom, causing it to load more videos, looking like it's refreshing.

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Novem

Okay, so the "Recommended Videos" option for the search results basically remove nonsense such as People Also Watched, Explore More and whatever YouTube feels like shoving at you.

Thing is, I have a feeling maybe this option is broken and not working properly since the whole page seems to disappear, I think I'll turn this off, maybe the update introduced changes to the inner workings which ended up breaking it.

It's not a new feature after all and I would imagine it's also something you need to enable (it's disabled by default).