You guys use the home screen? It's just ads. Watch the subscription feed.
FYI YouTube home screen does not show any videos if watch history is off
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#12Tell HN: YouTube requires watch history on for home screen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158674
Tell HN: YouTube is not showing home recommendations when watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157835
YouTube Will Display a Blank Home Feed If Your Watch History Is Turned Off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151135
YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066718
YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058189
YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054233
YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817
Ash HN: YouTube home page blank when history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963702
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#13Youtube needs a refresh suggestions button
On the home screen, clicking the Youtube logo refreshes the suggestions. Or did I misunderstand and you want it in a different view?
It think they mean more like "nothing on the home page looks interesting show different stuff". Sometimes YouTube will decide " I'm only going to recommend these 3 videos to you for the next month" or just misses the mark on the stuff I'm interested in watching
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#14My watch history is off. How do I turn off Home Screen? I still get it
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#15Youtube needs a refresh suggestions button
Youtube consistently forgets that I watched a video just a few days ago (no red line on the bottom of the thumbnail), and will suggest it over and over until you manually go to click on the ignore. Even recently they had a “suggest new” button on top near the “interests” buttons that would appear there, but I haven’t seen it for several weeks or maybe longer.
Youtube will also randomly switch a video I’m watching to 480p even though I pay for premium.
Their suggestion algorithm is also pretty bad to me, although maybe it works for some people.
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#16Good? The unlogged YT front page usually makes me feel like I've lost 10 IQ points
Seeded by things you've thumbs-upped was pretty decent. This change will just make me less likely to browse YouTube.
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#17This is actually so much better.
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#18Good. This is exactly what people who disable watch history wants.
How so? I don’t enable watch history but would still like to see recommendations. Could be based on geography, or overall trends, or time of day. Or whatever. Also, I find it funny to think Google isn’t tracking my watch history even if they aren’t showing it back to me. So why not try to have a positive user behavior. I don’t like Google’s attitude of “we’re going to purposely make our product shitty unless you enab…
> I don’t enable watch history but would still like to see recommendations. Could be based on geography, or overall trends, or time of day.
The Explore tab has "Trending, Music, Gaming, News, Sports". And each of those has more specific sub-sections.
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#19My watch history is off. How do I turn off Home Screen? I still get it
Staggered implementation? I still had a home page yesterday but it's gone this morning.
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#20as someone who is never logged in, this was actually the case a week ago. However, it has since returned to the old ways (which means that I get suggestions that are based on my history).
(Europe, Firefox)