Google has admitted that this was an intentional move and Google purposefully turned off the filters. Following is a Google’s Employee statement on a support forum as follows: For complete details of YouTube’s effort to take down hate and violative, have a look at our article on YouTube Takedown Of Hate-Speech.
Filter functionality:
The YouTube filter function allows a user to search for videos and then filter them based on the following: This means that if your search query is “how to make the perfect cake” then you can filter the results
Filter Functionality is Back:
A few days after when the filters were taken down, an update was added to the above-said forum post stating that the “search and sorting functions are working normally again”.
Solution if it happens again:
If such an enforced outage happens again, and you need to have the filtering option, follow the steps mentioned below: It’s not as good as YouTube’s search filters, you are habitual of, but it can get the job done. Keep enjoying!
