YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on
www.theverge.com
The homepage will look a lot different if your watch history is off.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7046320

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.

  • what@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Thank God. I’ve had watch history off for awhile but still spend too much time sucked into youtubes rabbit holes. Maybe I’ll finally be more productive. If only more tech companies could keep shooting themselves in the foot I might end up with respectable hobbies.