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YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But collectively it makes a difference.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 5 points 1 year ago

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.