After selected LEAVE HISTORY OFF, is stopped letting me browse and keeps asking me to ENABLE HISTORY. Anything google product has become hostile.
The best decision YouTube ever did.
Submitted 10 months ago by MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 10 months ago
j4k3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks for the nostalgia. I haven’t seen a login YT home feed in years, and I used to be a CC. YT has been a dumpster fire since the lobotomy of 2017.
MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It’s even worse now. It used to have a gigantic “thumbnails” like a size of my middle and index finger combined.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well, no shite. I’ll use Chromium without adblock and signed-in account, then.
DoolB@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What did youtube do?
FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
You won’t get video recommendations on your home feed (and maybe also other parts of youtube) if you have watch history disabled in your google account settings (you request google not to save your watch history).
DistractedDev@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Why would people want this? How else do you find videos to watch?
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Wait so you guys are disabling it or?
scarrtt@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I leave it on, the suggestions are good as far as I can tell. What’s everyone’s beef with it?
I don’t get the YouTube hate in general. It’s much more interesting than Netflix or TV so I’m happy to pay, although I pay Argentina rates courtesy of subscribing while connected to my VPN and I use Sponsor Block to skip the in-video ad reads. It still counts
mabd@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeah, I'm all for privacy, but I actually get interesting things recommended by YouTube. If I turn this off won't I just get random YouTube videos? No thanks. I also do use my watch history for "I watched it the other day, what was that video called again?"
sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I want to watch less YouTube so I leave recommendations off
MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I disabled my Google and YouTube’s history settings since 2019.
sic_1@feddit.de 10 months ago
Some video suggestions let me suspect that this only disables me being able to see my history though.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There’s a firefox plugin that redirects you to your subscriptions’ uploads instead of that nonsense that “Home” was. Highly recommend.
lando55@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Almost makes up for YouTube Shorts
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Shorts are nice when used properly. 60 second videos with no ads, subscription reminder or useless padding to reach 10 minutes? More, please! But channels which just upload excerpts of their recent videos as shorts just clutter my feed.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
The player has 0 controls, only vertical videos and you can't even filter them out permanently either. It is also full of low effort garbage spam that muddies search results. There's literally multiple channels that upload the same 5 videos every hour or so, using search terms / tags for other viral topics that have nothing to do with them. It's a fucking disaster.
MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh dear, please, don’t give 'em ideas. lol
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 10 months ago
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
xc2215x@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A good move from Youtube for sure.
style99@kbin.social 10 months ago
Nice, isn't it?
lemming007@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No, the best decision would be if they allowed us to disable shorts.