Submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
we’re making updates to better match how people discover trending content today by shifting away from one all-encompassing Trending list towards category-specific charts that we’ll continue to invest in over time.
When you’re logged out the main page is blank. It’s glorious. Thanks EU!
I do enjoy this but I didn’t realize I had the EU to thank!
After you watched a first video though it seems to have no problem remembering what your browser fingerprint has watched before.
Lol. I only ever go to my subscriptions page.
The trending page stopped being worth looking at once it shifted away from actual trending content. That content was replaced with ad friendly corporate videos like Kimmel and family vloggers you’ve never heard of.
Great, trending videos are generally completely trash
Knowing Youtube they will start drizzling them into your search results instead or something equally terrible.
Occasionally a video I like will get to trending and I’ll question my taste in media.
True. I know this person and he speaks for every single person that uses YouTube.
Could that be the first actual improvement in years?
I’m sure they’re gonna replace it with something even more asinine but my god, the trending page was always just a cesspool of the absolute worst content on YouTube (with a few exceptions every now and then)
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they doing that to stop all the scrapers like newpipe from “working”.
shit is hilarious.
fuck you Google.
How’s that gonna break NewPipe and the likes? Surely they don’t rely solely on the Trending page to get videos and such. I can see unpopular videos as well.
Sure, that could break their Trending pages. But they can then adapt by adopting the different Trending categories, innit? Make it a drop-down on the Trending page to select a category and avoid cluttering other parts of the interface with all the options
it won’t, but it’s clearly a deterrent. a pathetic one at that.
I spend hours on YouTube every single day and I have no clue what a “trending page” is.
I’m not sure how you can be so invested in YouTube and not at least be aware of trending. Have I ever looked at it? Not intentionally. Am I aware of it? Yeah.
When I open YouTube it gives me an edless feed of recommendations tailored to me. I don’t care what other people are watching. If there’s a tab with the title “trending” I’ve probably just never clicked it. I’m not even tempted to go see.
Have never seen a link to a “Trending” page or a “Trending Now” list in any of those spots.
I worked at YouTube and use it constantly. I knew about it. But I just never used it. Because it was always garbage.
I use unhook.app and there’s no trending page
unhook is amazing, it blocked unrelated ragebait and tripophobic content randomly popping up on my searches
Oh, also pair it with dearrow.ajay.app to crowdsource de-ragebaiting titles/thumbnails (from the maker of Sponsorblock)
Oh no! All those pages i block by turning my youtube history off!
Ahh yes, the brainrot section.
I’ve never used that feature…
don’t they just wanna turn that into the “everything” page? I get the feeling that Youtube and sites like it would rather us watch what they want rather than what we want.
Does this mean I will have to scroll even more if I want to go to a specific channel I am subscribed to? All i want on the left is History and the list of channels I am subscribed to.
Just use RSS to follow specific channels.
The trending page is separate from subscriptions.
Yeah, cover your shame.
Logged out YouTube was covered up a few years ago.
Good. Can my Watch Later list please be the most important item I see when I go there?
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Get rid of Shorts.
evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s too hot for that and I don’t think Google should control what people wear.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I keep hiding shorts but it keeps coming back like herpes
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I do the range to those fucking YouTube game things. Stupid things
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Revanced if you’re on Android
vxx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shorts are still there, but now they started cluttering the subscription page with community posts.
It’s bad, but especially when you browse in landscape Mode on a phone. They get blown up so big you have to scroll like 3 pages for one post, and there’s a lot of them.
tahoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shorts (as a format) aren’t the problem, it’s what you watch. If you train the algorithm to serve you garbage, then of course it’s gonna serve you garbage ¯_(ツ)_/¯
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I literally never watch shorts. I’ve selected the option to show less shorts on my computer, I select the not interested option on each individual video on my TV when the row of them shows up, and they still constantly come back.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Search is unusable because of shorts. Also I want the ability to turn them off.
Hack3900@lemy.lol 1 day ago
Shorts as a format are a problem, infinite scroll is just too addictive and having a format that encourages grabbing your attention in the first milliseconds even more than normal videos drags quality down
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
But Algospeak
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’ve installed user scripts to replace the player with the normal one and used unlock to hide the feed in my subscriptions page. Did the same with revanced on my phone.
They’re just designed to be addictive, I wasn’t getting anything out of them.
balder1991@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
They might, once it becomes too flooded with AI slop.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Hell yeah! It’s way too hot even for those.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Use browser plug-ins and revanced.