Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here’s what we have to offer:
I do miss the Mr. animal slop, clickbait nonsense with hundreds of millions of views, and occasional original content
The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.
Submitted 9 months ago by Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub to technology@lemmy.world
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jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Danitos@reddthat.com 9 months ago
This is not no-account YT, but no-cookies YT. If you are interested in experiencing this, some extensions automatically delete cookies for certain websites for you. I use Cookie AutoDelete
stringere@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Lovely
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I love it actually. Better than nazi adjacent vids and body horror stuff like boil maintenance and botfly removal. Fresh youtube accounts get the WORST stuff.
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Mine looks very similar to that intentionally. I sign in to see my subscribed channels and block the fuck out of all the bullshit.
midori_matcha@lemmy.world 9 months ago
THE JOY OF NOT BEING RECOMMENDED ANYTHING
communism@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Isn’t this better than trying to make it so that you never click off YouTube, the way it works if you are logged in? I would much rather have no recommendations than have an algorithm give me recommendations with the express purpose of maximising ad revenue extraction from me
Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
In an internet full of advertising and distractions, it’s nice to see a landing page that lets me decide what I want to consume.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I see it whenever I go there.
Objection@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I specifically disabled my watch history to get this. If I want to watch something, I’ll go to my subscriptions. Why would I want to interact with YouTube’s algorithm?
PunksAlwaysWin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Also if you turn off your viewing history.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is what our company one looks like.
Imagine a memory care when you go to put on music you get recommendations for Meagan the stallion and lil boosie
It really makes you realize the slop being shoveled by the algorithm
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Honestly, I like it. I run google and all of its platforms in their own tab containers, without signing in and that's what my Youtube looks like. It's great, I can search for the thing I need, and otherwise interact with google ad spam as little as possible
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same Ada.
I’d rather see nothing than the slop the algorithm keeps plastering across my screen. (Though I do like the topic buttons at the top.)
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Get the extension “DeArrow” it replaces thumbnails with random frames from the video and let’s the community edit titles, and auto un-capitalizes titles.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Compared to seeing Mr.Beast clone 678-1080 taking up the front with jimmy Kimmel for some reason, Yea I’d rather see a blank page too.
otp@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I actually like this. No politics. No big name personalities. No distractions.
Just a search bar to ASK me what I want to see before it tells me what it thinks I want to see.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
It’s almost like old school Google front page.
four@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
But then it shows you one bad result and then “other people also viewed this” and its just some barely related shorts
Bieren@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The best thing about this. No shorts.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
It’s been like this for quite a while. What about it?
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Only positive change google has made in the last decade
Goretantath@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I can get this when logged in too! Just disable history! Its great.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
Just came here to say this.
The suggested videos are terrible.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The only way to use YouTube.
BT_7274@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They probably got tired of those videos where people see how quickly you can fall down an alt-right rabbit hole directly from the home page on a fresh account.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Better than whatever brains of garbage would come up of it was just giving you a default based off what’s popular.
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Ok but I’m pretty sure it’s like this because if they make recommendations they go from being a social media company to a publisher, so they can’t make recommendations not based on what things you watch through the algorithm. And if you don’t have an account they aren’t (at least officially) tracking what you watch to make recommendations.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
This is always what my YouTube homepage looks like because I only access it in ghostery browser, using a ghost tab by default (like incognito/private/inprivate, but because ghostery, also blocks tracking, cookies, etc.)
I typically completely close the browser between links (it’s my default link handling browser for Lemmy), so it gets reset frequently enough to have nothing on home if I actually navigate there.
HubertManne@piefed.social 9 months ago
Yeah and you can get to the most popular short form stuff with one click but not long form. Its like. Well since we are trying to compete and take over this area here we will put some minimal effort forth.
BoycottPro@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Looks wonderful to me!
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
Tried this on a private window, and yes, that’s what it looks like. Thought I’d click on Shorts and let the first 3 seconds of the opening auto-play video play. Then back to the home page and wow, full of absolute trash.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Holy shit it works, and transforms the front page into an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
I’m like, “Is this what normal people in 2025 watch?” I feel like an alien on earth, except the planet changed and not me.
kurcatovium@piefed.social 9 months ago
How am I not surprised? Shorts is video equivalent of cancer.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What’s bizarre and dismal is that someone is so starved for dopamine and attention from corporations that this is how they perceive what life looks like when you are not being targetted.
This is my normal view and it is far better.