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YouTube Home Feed Empty With History Off, Anyone Else? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jtk@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've had my YT history off for years, today I was prompted to check the setting. I kept it off, now my Home feed is just a prompt to turn it on. I actually like it.

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[–] unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I recently disabled history after getting annoyed about getting bombarded with recommended videos for something I only needed to watch once (e.g. a recipe, or instructions on how to repair something).

Now my YT homepage is literally stuck with the same videos, even the ones I've already watched. Doesn't matter how many times I refresh.

YouTube recommendation algorithm is extremely rudimentary, it's shocking. I really wished that they gave us the ability to tune the recommendation model, or some sort of include exclude filtering.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

You want to tune the recommendation model yourself?! Youtube knows better than you what you should watch, just shut up and keep clicking the ads!

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try removing the problematic video from your history. That usually seems to help.

[–] unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Been doing so over and over. The problem is that the recommendation model is pretty basic. You start watching a new channel or new topics, your recos start being mostly about topics related to the new channel/topics.

If I'm subbed to 200 channels, rarely do I get recos from channels I've subbed to early on. As a dev, I would love for the ability to tune what gets shown on the home page.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is that on the web site or the app? On the web, it's just the prompt to change the setting for me.

Edit: Just checked, it's just the prompt in the app for me too. Not sure why yours is stuck.