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YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions (support.google.com)
submitted 2 years ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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On the flip side, this also means users have the option to have a cleaner, less cluttered interface.

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[AUGUST 8, 2023] A new viewer experience that better corresponds to your YouTube watch history preferences

One of the benefits of having YouTube watch history on is that it enables YouTube to provide video recommendations you may be interested in; however, we know some prefer to clear and turn off your YouTube watch history. Starting today, we’re changing how you see recommendations on YouTube, based on your Watch History settings:

Starting today, if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history, features that require watch history to provide video recommendations will be disabled – like your YouTube home feed. This means that starting today, your home feed may look a lot different: you’ll be able to see the search bar and the left-hand guide menu, with no feed of recommended videos thus allowing you to more easily search, browse subscribed channels and explore Topic tabs instead.

We’re rolling these changes out slowly, over the next few months. We are launching this new experience to make it more clear which YouTube features rely on watch history to provide video recommendations and make it more streamlined for those of you who prefer to search rather than browse recommendations. You can change your YouTube watch history settings at any time based on whether you prefer us to provide video recommendations or not.

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[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Removal of algorithmic suggestions is enticing to me. I’ll take advantage of this as soon as it’s possible.

[–] WiildFiire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Honestly doesn't sound too bad, I feel like it'll actually give me suggestions based off what I've already watched, because sometimes I'll let it play and as much as I love dankpods I've accidentally seen his 1 million subscribers video like 17 fucking times because it keeps getting auto played at the end of a completely irrelevant video

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

One concern is that if I fall down the wellof interesting videos on one topic, does that mean I'm now going to endlessly get video suggestions of only that topic? That binging on videos of the Hoover dam was just a one time thing. A little experimenting. Nothing serious. But now I want to get recommended videos from my subscriptions and go back to normal. I'm guessing that Hoover dam videos are going to follow me incessantly though?

[–] MdRuckus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't entirely see how this is relevant to some people. For example, I don't care what the recommendations are. I go into YouTube and immediately go to subscriptions and just watch what's new. I realize that this isn't what everyone does, but it works for me.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

An interesting idea from Youtube.