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YouTube Home Feed Empty With History Off, Anyone Else? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jtk@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've had my YT history off for years, today I was prompted to check the setting. I kept it off, now my Home feed is just a prompt to turn it on. I actually like it.

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[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is now mandatory to have a watch history on YouTube if you want to keep getting video recommendations.

Me, who hates the recommendations and YouTube storing my watch history: I see this as an absolute win

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why do you hate the recommendations? For me it goes thru my subs and pics the videos I'm actually interested about and then fills the gaps with related videos at which it seems to do pretty good job at.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah not impossible to get good recs, I just find them more often to be not that helpful/interesting. Also they really soak up everything, so if I watch one video about solar panels or something my feed is suddenly 8 deep-dives into what BIG SOLAR doesn’t want me to know

[–] Casmael@geddit.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t forget the consistent recommendations for subtle and not-so-subtle right wing content

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What IS big solar hiding… just asking questions!

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Must see! Watch now! BIG SOLAR HATES this one thing!

(It's shade from clouds and trees, they hate shade)

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've curated my subs for years and there are basically no videos I don't wanna watch from it. YouTube fails to include all the videos I watch, so the recommendations are useless for me, unless I caught up with my sub feed already.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's a big miss for me most times - because I watched a video critical of a far right wing nut job DOES NOT mean I want to see videos from prageru (not an actual university) or toiletpaperusa.
I don't trust a big org's algorithm to not recommend what benefits then over what benefits me.

[–] rubikcuber@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. When I used to use YouTube I had a browser extension that directed the home page to my subscriptions.