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YouTube Search Results Empty When Including Sexual Terms #13925

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Affected version

0.29.1

Steps to reproduce the bug

  1. Have youtube selected
  2. Search for anything and append a "sexual" term to your query. Real example, this song: 'Vana - Playboi'

Expected behavior

Search results get shown. In the 'Vana - Playboi' example, a list of music/videos by the artist Vana, particularly her song titled PLAYBOi, are among the results

Actual behavior

No results shown. Screen displays "No results".

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Additional information

This issue appears to have shown up recently. I even tested on v0.28.8, and the issue is now also present there.
It appears that this is specifically filtering certain words that are/can be sexual, as even searching up genitals get filtered and blocks search.

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  1. added
    bugIssue is related to a bug
    needs triageIssue is not yet ready for PR authors to take up
    on Oct 16, 2026
  2. AudricV commented on Oct 17, 2026

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    Thank you for the report. YouTube requires now to login to see search results which may be "inappropriate for some users", this is one of them.

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    YouTubeService, https://www.youtube.com/
    search/sortAnything related to the searching or sorting
    and removed
    needs triageIssue is not yet ready for PR authors to take up
    on Oct 17, 2026
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