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YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions (support.google.com)
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On the flip side, this also means users have the option to have a cleaner, less cluttered interface.

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[AUGUST 8, 2023] A new viewer experience that better corresponds to your YouTube watch history preferences

One of the benefits of having YouTube watch history on is that it enables YouTube to provide video recommendations you may be interested in; however, we know some prefer to clear and turn off your YouTube watch history. Starting today, we’re changing how you see recommendations on YouTube, based on your Watch History settings:

Starting today, if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history, features that require watch history to provide video recommendations will be disabled – like your YouTube home feed. This means that starting today, your home feed may look a lot different: you’ll be able to see the search bar and the left-hand guide menu, with no feed of recommended videos thus allowing you to more easily search, browse subscribed channels and explore Topic tabs instead.

We’re rolling these changes out slowly, over the next few months. We are launching this new experience to make it more clear which YouTube features rely on watch history to provide video recommendations and make it more streamlined for those of you who prefer to search rather than browse recommendations. You can change your YouTube watch history settings at any time based on whether you prefer us to provide video recommendations or not.

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[-] meathorse@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Do they think this is some kind of threat?

Fuck the recommendations - all I get is the same 15 suggestions across multiple categories, most of them I've already watched or in my subscriptions.

The beauty of YouTube used to be the random jewels of clips that would surface, now it's just corporate friendly pop stars latest music videos and the same shitty content over and over and over again.

It's impossible to just stumble across anything unique on yt now.

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Totally agree, there's so much good content on there but all I see are the same 10-ish content creators and it fucking sucks.

Any 3rd party site that gives better YT recommendations?

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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