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.
Nothing of value was lost. With my history on all it shows me is fucking right wing hate and shit I’ve already watched.
Or just any hate shit. Right now my feed is full of hate for everything Star Wars because I’m a huge fan. I’m perfectly aware of all the flaws and could pen some epic rants myself, but I’d rather focus on what I enjoy.
Though… I do feel like lately 90% of hate material seems to be from people with right wing leanings.