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No, the best decision would be if they allowed us to disable shorts.
After I selected LEAVE HISTORY OFF, it stopped letting me browse and keeps asking me to ENABLE HISTORY. Anything google product has become hostile.
They need to ban reaction thumbnails ffs
Wait so you guys are disabling it or?
I leave it on, the suggestions are good as far as I can tell. What’s everyone’s beef with it?
I don’t get the YouTube hate in general. It’s much more interesting than Netflix or TV so I’m happy to pay, although I pay Argentina rates courtesy of subscribing while connected to my VPN and I use Sponsor Block to skip the in-video ad reads. It still counts
Yeah, I’m all for privacy, but I actually get interesting things recommended by YouTube. If I turn this off won’t I just get random YouTube videos? No thanks. I also do use my watch history for “I watched it the other day, what was that video called again?”
For me the thing that holds me back from using an alternative frontend is that the yt algoritm doesnt work on those. The thing that i hate is that it doesnt recommend the channels which I’m subscibed to most of the times. Also, on my FreeBSD-based mobile operanting system, there arent frontend wrappers so I’m left with the proprietary app which is included in the package store
Every time I set up a new computer, and before I log into Youtube and see my own recommendations, I look at the raw front page and am shocked that people find all that bullshit entertaining. Nothing but clickbait, drama, and political videos as far as the eye can see.
Exactly, it’s total garbage. I’ve been training the algo for years, no way I’m giving that up
the algorithm is changing form me, and also for other people
They’ll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
Well, no shite. I’ll use Chromium without adblock and signed-in account, then. I’ll separate my YouTube and personal web browsing… oh wait, Firefox Containers exist.
I’m definitely not going to watch ads if there’s no way around them. I’d just move on. The platform has been on a constant downfall for me over the past decade anyway. Most of it is just clickbait shit and the recommendation algorithms became worse and worse too. Same with the search function. They don’t even allow you to search for explicit terms using quotation marks anymore and I still don’t understand why they did that. All my search results are muddled with unrelated garbage now, often times in front of the stuff I actually want to find.
Nebula seems like a cool concept. Not sure if there is enough content to be worth it for me yet (I dont watch much youtube to begin with), but I definitely like the idea. They are also currently partnered with a documentary service, so that might push me into it though.
If you want to pay for ad free YT then you can just pay for ad free YT.
What did youtube do?
You won’t get video recommendations on your home feed (and maybe also other parts of youtube) if you have watch history disabled in your google account settings (you request google not to save your watch history).
Why would people want this? How else do you find videos to watch?
I am subscribed to over 100 channels, ranging from daily uploads to 1 video every few months. Frankly I don’t need more stuff to watch. When I do want to find something new, it’s either a recommendation from a friend, something I saw on a different social media, or something I searched for myself deliberately.
This change isn’t a good thing, it’s Google trying to pressure more people into giving up more data, but the “threat” of them removing their algorithmically recommended content from my feed is not a threat at all, it’s a bonus if anything.
