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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.
The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.
Submitted 12 hours ago by Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub to technology@lemmy.world
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TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
SatyrSack@lemmy.sdf.org 11 hours ago
Your title makes this sound like a bad thing, but this looks like it would probably be preferable over being shown whatever YouTube_wants_ you to see.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Yes and no, I don’t have an account but I also don’t use the frontpage because why would I, it’s empty. When you watch a video you still get the recommendations in the sidebar.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours 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 7 hours 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.)
Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
no ads no algorithm no preset slop machine
a gentle reminder to use my own decisions in what to search and watch
true zen
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 hours ago
No matter how frugal the surface, underneath it’s all still there. Also something to remember when using Google search. the fact that it’s all white and clean does not mean it’s minimal.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I can get this when logged in too! Just disable history! Its great.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 hours ago
Just came here to say this.
The suggested videos are terrible.
otp@sh.itjust.works 8 hours 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 7 hours ago
It’s almost like old school Google front page.
four@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
But then it shows you one bad result and then “other people also viewed this” and its just some barely related shorts
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Perfection!
I rather have strangers on forums recommending me stuff than their “algorithm”
Exurb1a is great btw (a lot of philosophy with a tiny sprinkle of… well you know… existential crisis 🫠)
Mentour Pilot for those who have an aircraft obsession
Ted-Ed for a lot of various historical, science, even political, educational content.
Danitos@reddthat.com 5 hours 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
midori_matcha@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
THE JOY OF NOT BEING RECOMMENDED ANYTHING
Bieren@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The best thing about this. No shorts.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 5 hours 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.
JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
bizarre, dismal
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.
l_b_i@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Its not this simple, it looks like this to me on my fairly locked down browser (firefox), but on a fresh profile (image attached), that page is populated. I assume its a cookie setting, as I see the same behavior when I turn off tracking protection and ad blockers. I didn’t play around beyond that.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I assume its a cookie setting, as I see the same behavior when I turn off tracking protection and ad blockers.
It goes way deeper than that. Fingerprinting is a whole thing. Your IP, combined with some characteristics about your browser, operating system and hardware… pretty unique.
Interesting to see what YT “thinks” about you.
I see 1995 twice there.
l_b_i@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Probably cookies, I did another quick test and created a new profile. The front page was unpopulated. I went to a technology connections video, and the refreshed the front page. It was populated, cleared stored information, (history, cookies, cache, etc…) and when I refreshed the homepage it was blank again.
The fairly default browser I used to take the screenshot is to watch some free with ads movies on youtube, most recently was waterworld, fun to watch, makes no sense.
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Nostalgia marketing operates on roughly 20 to 30 year cycles, so we’re dead center of 90s nostalgia. As the current decade wears on, there should be a gradual shift to 2000s era nostalgia (and another revival of the 80s, the most marketable decade). I can’t say that looming war in the middle east doesn’t give me those warm Bush 2 era vibes, though we are a bit early for it.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
It’s cookies for sure. I use Firefox Focus on my phone and it clears cookies after every session. Blank front page of YT.
Private browsing window with Librewolf on my computer? Blank front page.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Only positive change google has made in the last decade
Kinokoloko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours 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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You guys are signing in?
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Each day I go to the YouTube app on Roku to my subscriptions tab and watch whatever is new. Then I go to Recommend and it’s 90% or more previous videos from those same subscriptions and very little new creators it hasn’t showed me.
After almost a year of this it figured out last week I might like AronRa, a person I’m very familiar with. And after countless videos on anthropology, evolution and paleontology he should have come up so much sooner. So much for big data.
But what is completely lacking is a “show me completely random stuff, old, new, not in my algorithm, short, long, completely against my algorithm, etc.” it lacks almost any way to discover new stuff that isn’t 100% related to content you already have.
YouTube gets more uploads than any one person can possibly watch and yet it’s almost incapable of showing me something unless I explicitly tell it to find it for me.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Best we can do is some Jordan Peterson videos and something where trump appears to be yelling.
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You watch one ContraPoints video about Jordan B Peterson and the next thing you know … Still not any JBP video recommendations. So I guess there is an upside to the failure of big data.
PunksAlwaysWin@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Also if you turn off your viewing history.
BT_7274@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
I see it whenever I go there.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 8 hours 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.
rottenmummy@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
They are really pushing you to log in. This was not YouTube a year ago. Upside, you skip all the brain rot videos.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
It’s been like this for quite a while. What about it?
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 6 hours 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.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The only way to use YouTube.
BoycottPro@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Looks wonderful to me!
communism@lemmy.ml 6 hours 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
Objection@lemmy.ml 7 hours 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?
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I do miss the Mr. animal slop, clickbait nonsense with hundreds of millions of views, and occasional original content
wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
🥹 it’s so clean and beautiful
Lojcs@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
You too can get his by disabling history
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
In fact if you disable history it will refuse to show you things even after you search something.
scarabic@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, considering what garbage tends to top the trending charts at YT, I think a blank page is better than if they just show the most popular videos of the day.