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YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months 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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[-] Riker_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago

Cool, now make the search useful again by letting me do -thingIdon'twant or "thing I do want" in quotes. Why did that functionality even go away? Search is such garbage now that tries to get you to click on shit you didn't search for.

[-] Xperr7@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

That, and remove the 3 vids of what I searched for, then 3 vids of whatever the fuck, then shorts thay may or may not be related.

[-] anachronist@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago

And also how if you're looking at a creator's page and you start scrolling to see their old stuff it starts putting in random videos from other people in the feed.