Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.

• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In fact if you disable history it will refuse to show you things even after you search something.

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  • PlantJam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On the home screen yes, but you do still get search results.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s what I meant. The home screen will just continue to inform you that your history is off. You can only sign out or browse your subscriptions.

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      • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I see no problem with this, what with all the recommended slop

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s wonderful, I haven’t had my YT history on in forever. Only use the subscription page which I have bookmarked.

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      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m curious on what your solution to this would be? There is already a page to browse your subscriptions, and a page to browse the popular stuff.

        The home page specifically is to find new videos based on your history, so with no history what would it show?

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You get a handful of results, after which you just get “recommended” AI slop shorts and completely irrelevant “suggestions”.

      If YT Red gave me the option to disable Shorts and “suggestions” I might pay for it but you can’t pay your way out of this hellhole.

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      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ReVanced (a patched version of the official app) is straight up better than Premium because it can get rid of all the crap corporate insists on shoving into customers’ faces. My YouTube app has a subscriptions tab (that only shows videos, not shorts or random “informative” carousels) and my profile tab with all my playlists.

        It’s glorious in its simplicity. Why would I ever pay Google for a worse product?

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