Lo and behold, I was greeted with the following message above the video: Although I could watch the video there, I decided to click-through to see it on YouTube's site and read any comments below the video. Long story short, I read an article that had a YouTube video embedded in it. You can read more about them from YouTube's unlisted video help page, but the way I found out about this whole thing in the first place was purely by accident.

To start, the primary value of these new unlisted videos is so a person can share a video with anyone of their choosing, yet have it not show up in YouTube search results.

These new unlisted videos piqued my curiosity, what with my near-obsessive desires to locate content that's otherwise not meant for public consumption, so, naturally, I decided to look into it and seek to answer the one burning question in my mind: 'How do I find these videos if they're unlisted?' The search ninja will show you how! These are different from private videos that only allow 25 others with YouTube accounts to view them. Recently, I learned that YouTube now has unlisted videos. It's not every day that you learn something new about a site you have visited multiple times almost daily for years now.

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