YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on
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#2I use YouTube without logging in. I got something in between. Instead of a blank page I got a generic page with popular topics instead of videos similar to the ones I watched previously.
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#3> if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history
I don't know what they consider to be "significant prior watch history". I have mine paused for nearly 4 years, and have spent a lot of time removing videos from my watch history to improve their recommendations. I've talked about it on HN before [1].
I finally got around to subscribing to YouTube Premium, and they already burned me once by raising prices. If I'm affected by this, I'm canceling it and donating the equivalent between NewPipe [2] and Piped.video [3]
I truly despise this company. No matter what you do or how much money you give them, you are always the product to Google - never the customer.
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#4So this happened to me. I submitted a support request and they fixed it very quickly. My watch history is still off and the homepage is back.
It's still a pretty crappy thing to do.
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#5> if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history I don't know what they consider to be "significant prior watch history". I have mine paused for nearly 4 years, and have spent a lot of time removing videos from my watch history to improve their recommendations. I've talked about it on HN before [1]. I finally got around to subscribing to YouTube Premium, and they already burned me o…
> I truly despise this company.
maybe it felt good to say that, but don't expect any change. The number one hated company in the USA for years according to some poll, is monopoly cable TV in many regions. "hate" all you want, they know that, and they hire people who are increasingly immune to feedback.
basically, I agree with you here in California.. with the added content that some of those who hold stock in that company are the ones buying overpriced houses.
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#6Boycott YouTube, use:
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#7This sounds like an improvement. I only ever view YouTube videos in a private browser, in order to avoid getting a screen full of personalized video recommendations based on whatever random thing I happened to look at last, but the generic recommendations are completely worthless. It would be nicer to skip the whole thing.
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#8This sounds like a feature I've wanted for a while. I'm seriously trying to decide if deleting my watch history is worth the major benefit of disabling the YouTube homepage and recommendations area.
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#9YT users built their castles in the sands of the shores of a globalized megacorp.
Time to find another platform more transparent about crap content and where corporate crap isn't given a soapbox.
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#10This is a great change but either it's not fully rolled out yet or it's not enabled when logged out. I still see a cluttered home page when I visit.
It stinks that a user interface improvement this large would require you to log in; hopefully that's just a temporary issue. In the meantime there are scripts, css tweaks, and alternative clients that can make the watching experience cleaner and less distracting, but people shouldn't have to have technical knowledge just to get a clean home menu when visiting the site.