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YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on (www.theverge.com)
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YouTube is changing the homepage experience for users who have their watch history turned off. They will now see an almost blank homepage with just a search bar and buttons for Shorts, Subscriptions and Library. This is intended to make it clear that personalized recommendations rely on watch history data. The new design aims to avoid extreme thumbnails and instead focus search. Some users have already started seeing this change, though it may not be fully rolled out yet. The goal is to both help those who prefer searching over recommendations, and potentially encourage users to turn their history back on. Overall this represents a major interface change focused on watch history preferences.

What's been your experience with youtube recommendations? For me they are consistently hot garbage.

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[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

What is the alternative? There is so many videos and creators I am not sure their is any other way to do it. Besides some form of an algorithm.

[-] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about not making suggestions? Just show me what I'm subbed to. I don't need nor want a massive billion dollar company doing anything for me.

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

But you have already found what you subscribed to. One of the reasons why Youtube is so popular is the discoverability aspect of it. That is my question how does discoverability work without some kind of algorithm recommending people videos.

[-] GolGolarion@pathfinder.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

human interaction, mostly. I get a lot of my new music from a guy who scours bandcamp for stuff he likes as a hobby.

[-] Pleat1752@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Music-wise: Radio stations "oh but the radio sucks" yeah but online radio stations don't. They don't have any ads. Start with NTS 1 and 2 and go from there. Last.fm browsing USER pages. RYM user pages. Online music guides written by real people. Recommendations from friends- real people.

Video-wise: I honestly don't watch youtubers. Their output and quality isn't up to snuff. No I don't care about speedruns, about "internet rabbit holes" about any of that. About people restoring old gear. About basically anything. So I watch actual TV shows and actual movies, and you guessed it, I get those recommendations from REAL PEOPLE.

I deleted my original comment cos I felt it was a little negative but somehow that didn't propagate across the fediverse.. weird!

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