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YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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This is not good like the people in the comments think. It'll just get more people to create accounts to give Google more data. You could easily just not click on thumbnails before. You could also just block it all with uBlock Origin to have an empty front page.
I concur. It seems like Google is trying to force personalization. It's also not good that they are hiding the default recommendations because it becomes harder to see what is being censored.
Google is already forcing personalization on everybody anyway. Browse Youtube without an account and it'll look just the same as with an account. The only difference is that without an account you can't clear videos from your history or ignore channels, but the videos they list are still highly personalized on your watch history.
You have to actually clear and block cookies to get rid of personalization.
There will be personalization as long as cookies are enabled though. I wouldn't be surprised if they fingerprint on top of that too.
Everyone one is already giving all their data to google/facebook/tiktok/amazon. Why would you care about average internet user?
But collectively it makes a difference.
The only collective effect I can think of is that if everyone would start blocking ads google and others would crack down on ad-blockers and it would be more difficult for us to use them. Let the sheep feed google so it doesn't care about the 1% that's currently hiding.