How To Find Hidden Content On Youtube

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When a YouTube video's privacy is set to "unlisted," y'all can't observe the video by searching or browsing YouTube—only people who have a link to the video tin scout information technology. And as of July 2021, all unlisted YouTube videos uploaded prior to 2017 were set to private, which has drastically decreased the amount of available unlisted YouTube videos. Though you lot can't detect a particular unlisted YouTube video without its link, you tin notice other unlisted videos by browsing playlists, or by using an archive site similar Unlisted Videos. If you're looking for your ain unlisted videos, you're in luck—they're like shooting fish in a barrel to detect in the YouTube Studio editor.

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Unlisted videos won't appear in search results on YouTube or in Google. The just exception is if someone shared that unlisted video somewhere public, such as on Twitter, in a weblog post, or on a forum. But there are still some options for coming beyond unlisted videos:
- Visit https://unlistedvideos.com. Unlisted Videos is a massive annal of unlisted YouTube videos, including many from 2016 and earlier. You tin search or browse through more than 600,000 unlisted YouTube videos on this site.
- Browse people'southward YouTube playlists. People often add their unlisted videos to their own playlists, which makes them easier to find even though they aren't searchable in YouTube or through Google. Y'all tin can see a person's public playlists by clicking their name in YouTube and selecting the Playlists tab.
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YouTube switched all unlisted videos uploaded before Jan 2017 to individual. If you had any older unlisted videos bookmarked, or had them embedded on websites or in presentations, they probably stopped working dorsum in July 2021.^[1]
- The owner of the video tin switch information technology dorsum to unlisted (or make it public) to restore others' access to the video. But if the possessor hasn't washed that, the video will remain individual forever (or until they do modify information technology).

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Your unlisted videos are easy to find in YouTube Studio. Hither's how to find them:
- Log in to YouTube Studio.
- Click the Content tab.
- Click the funnel icon at the elevation of the video list and select Visibility.
- Choose Unlisted as the visibility blazon.
- Since whatever unlisted videos you uploaded earlier 2017 were marked equally private in July 2021, you can notice those by selecting Private from the visibility folder instead.
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There's no way to find an unlisted YouTube video if you don't have the link. These videos are not searchable. Simply you tin can effort an unlisted video archive like UnlistedVideos.com to see if someone submitted information technology there, or browse the playlist of the person who created it to see if they added it to the list. Also, if a video was shared every bit Unlisted prior to 2017, it was automatically marked every bit Private by YouTube in July 2021.

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