It must be the recent questionable moves made by YouTube recently disabling the upload date and the viewer counter.

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      2 days ago

      great… now I can watch a 10 minute long video on how to fix something, just to find out that it’s utter garbage (bc of missing dislike) AND uploaded 10 years ago. Great!

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      5 days ago

      That’s serious stuff if true. I would often the upload date to avoid reuploads and regurgitated (and lower visual quality) content. It’s also extremely useful to know how outdated some advice or guide is.

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        4 days ago

        The amount of April fucking 1st videos that would now be indistinguishable from normal videos alone makes the idea of upload date removal outright dangerous in my opinion.