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 1 year ago by MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 1 year ago
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well, no shite. I’ll use Chromium without adblock and signed-in account, then.
DoolB@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What did youtube do?
FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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 1 year ago
Why would people want this? How else do you find videos to watch?
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wait so you guys are disabling it or?
scarrtt@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
I want to watch less YouTube so I leave recommendations off
MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I disabled my Google and YouTube’s history settings since 2019.
sic_1@feddit.de 1 year ago
Some video suggestions let me suspect that this only disables me being able to see my history though.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year ago
Almost makes up for YouTube Shorts
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Oh dear, please, don’t give 'em ideas. lol
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.
xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A good move from Youtube for sure.
style99@kbin.social 1 year ago
Nice, isn't it?
lemming007@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, the best decision would be if they allowed us to disable shorts.