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Good. This is exactly what people who disable watch history wants.
The android YouTube App on my Pico projector doesn't need a. Login to watch my history and make recommendations.
The most likely privacy invasion is like the most likely assailant in violence: people you know.
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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.
You guys use the home screen? It's just ads. Watch the subscription feed.
My subscription feed is filled with things that are completely irrelevant because it doesn't adapt to my interests. I guess I could prune my subscriptions but why would I when the home screen works so much better? Also if you only watch people you're already subscribed to it will be hard to find new things. I don't know what makes you say the home screen is "just ads" because that's definitely not true
I think maybe you should stop subscribing to channels you don't like?
They wrote a blog post about this change last week as if it was a good thing. It's not a good thing: "you’ll be able to see the search bar and the left-hand guide menu, with no feed of recommended videos thus allowing you to more easily search, browse subscribed channels and explore Topic tabs instead." I'm still not enabling my watch history.
Youtube needs a refresh suggestions button
“I’m feeling lucky” and “Just show me a random video” would be fun. Also just having weird stuff like “show me a video that most closely matches this color scheme” or “find me the antipode of this video”