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YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] peter@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Is this not a privacy win though? Isn't this what people want?

[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It seems people are now discovering that they can turn off watch history and think this is a new feature.

[–] jukey@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

This is exactly what I would prefer even without being logged in!