Monday, 26 October 2015

Day 374, Practical YouTube tip


If you want to watch a bunch of videos on a YouTube channel in consecutive order of date of publication how do you do it?

Well it's easy.  Select the video you want to start watching from.  Append this &list=UL to the URL.  Press enter, then off it goes.

I started this sequence of videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu3Y_jyeTyY&list=UL

And off it ran until I decided to take a screenshot during this one here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKv5LUfITc&list=UL-0SKDXwHKkA&index=21


I'm guessing the reason YouTube doesn't supply a simple, one-click option to do this is dues to some advertising or marketing mechanism hidden behind the guise of "we've chosen a list of what we best think will appeal to you."

Which may just be cynical old me.

However, given some of the tripe they seem to think will appeal to me (people falling over etc,) they are way off the mark in their profiling.

Someone, somewhere, someday might touch this data, actually read the data and make some judgement that is frankly bizarre.

Even if you delete the Marty Feldman truing a spare bicycle wheel or the World Naked Juggling Championships videos from your history, it will still be there in the data.

Think on.



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