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Remove sort by rating and date in video search filters#8676
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Closes #8636

Description

Removes rating and date sorting options since Youtube removed them both acording to their thread:

The two filters we’re removing are ‘Upload Date - Last Hour’ and ‘Sort by Rating.’

(https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/400586735/changes-to-youtube-search-filters-to-improve-content-discovery)

Invidious search API works fine if the Preferred API backend is set to an Invidious instance.

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Testing

  1. Clone FreeTube
  2. Execute git fetch origin pull/8676/head:remove-deprecated-sort-options to fetch the PR
  3. Checkout the PR: git checkout remove-deprecated-sort-options
  4. Build FreeTube: yarn run build
  5. Open FreeTube and see that the deprecated filters are no longer there

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  • OS: Arch Linux
  • OS Version: Rolling
  • FreeTube version: v0.23.13 Beta (development branch)

Additional context

iv-org/invidious#5626

Removes rating and date sorting options since Youtube removed them both
acording to their thread:

```
The two filters we’re removing are ‘Upload Date - Last Hour’ and ‘Sort by Rating.’
```
(https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/400586735/changes-to-youtube-search-filters-to-improve-content-discovery)

Closes FreeTubeApp#8636
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absidue commented Feb 16, 2026

Hey, thank you for the pull request. As I have changes locally for all of the filter and sorting changes (YouTube.js changes for reference: LuanRT/YouTube.js#1136) I'll probably go with those instead. It's just waiting for me to go through the hassle for adding support for all of the sorting layout changes on channel pages to YouTube.js before I do the YouTube.js release.

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Fijxu commented Feb 16, 2026

Cool, then feel free to close this instead of you already have the changes done in your computer ;)

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absidue commented Feb 16, 2026

Also not sure if you have changed it on the Invidious side yet, but the options for the duration section changed, not just the display text but also the protobuf values.

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Fijxu commented Feb 16, 2026

I see, I'll take a look at it, thank you ^^

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[Bug]: Search filters dont work properly

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