I went through and cleared all of my old watch history, search history, everything from YouTube. It immediately started recommending the same things I’ve already watched. It continues to recommend seven year old videos regularly. Videos I know it knows I’ve watched already since it clearly didn’t erase any of my history like I asked. The shorts shit is awful. It’s even worse if you tell YouTube not to track you, it freaks out and only plays the same shorts over and over
Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google
wolfruff@pawb.social 8 months agoDont forget to mention getting unrelated shorts shoved down your throat everywhere. I seriously deleted my decade old youtube channel over this. Fuck Google.
Beefytootz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
cerement@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
“Youtube-shorts block” (or one of several similar addons) that forces shorts to be treated as normal videos
But that you need a half-dozen addons just for Youtube alone to either make it usable or to restore functionality it used to have …
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just use uBlock to hide shorts. Works fine.