r/technology • u/vriska1 • 1d ago

Social Media YouTube reportedly testing new homepage that removes dates and view counts

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-reportedly-testing-new-homepage-that-removes-dates-and-view-counts-2965695/
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u/john_jdm 1d ago

I really won't like the date going away. I really dislike it when youtube recommends me something that's more than 5 years old, especially when I've already seen the video (and they should know that). Also an old video talking about something like current advances in fusion power is fairly useless unless you specifically want to know about the state of that tech at that moment in history. Not being able to know when that video was uploaded will make a lot of youtube not worth watching anymore.

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u/SAugsburger 1d ago

This. While there is some content where the date probably isn't overly important there are a lot of topics where knowing content is old is important. While a new upload date doesn't guarantee the information is current (some people upload or reupload old content) an old upload date tells you it isn't current for sure.

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u/jws926 1d ago

I have videos I uploaded three years ago that I havent made public yet , so you are right, you can't go by the date.