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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
I want to watch less YouTube so I leave recommendations off
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
I disabled my Google and YouTube's history settings since 2019.
Some video suggestions let me suspect that this only disables me being able to see my history though.
I feel this too. When i listen to a song on one device then it gets recommended on another even with history off was kind of sus
Well, this is the point of "removing" tailored suggestions on YT's homepage.
Idk why you would want less tailored suggestions for content. They'll still suggest stuff, it just won't be relevant to you. Shrug. I'm a big fan of YouTubers rec algorithm, especially for music.
Dude, I recently turned on my History for the first time since 2019, watched five monetized videos (long-form film-related stuffs, turned off uBlock Origin), and YT just flooded me with nonsense local stuffs with their ridiculous "thumbnails" on homepage.
I was like, "lulz nope dis is disgusting."
There's a firefox plugin that redirects you to your subscriptions' uploads instead of that nonsense that "Home" was. Highly recommend.