This random YouTube video finder takes you back to pre-algorithm internet fun

fotograzia/Getty Images The second you start watching a video on YouTube, the site begins building an algorithm of your likes. While the goal of that is to show you content you want to see, it means you'll miss out on so much. A new tool lets you see YouTube without the algorithm, and it feels like an entirely different internet. The tool works on a basic premise: from 2009 to 2012, iPhones had a "Send to YouTube" button built into the Photos app. Unless you changed the file name, the video title would be the default "IMG_XXXX" file name. This tool searches for videos with that name from those years and shows them at random. Also: YouTube launches cheaper Premium Lite plan - but are the trade-offs worth it? Since people often used YouTube as a storage service or a way to easily share long videos, most of these videos were never meant to be shared with the world. Still, viewing them is calming. It's like a time capsule to a less-serious internet. Nobody is trying to go viral, the v ... Read full article.