It’ll have to be my subscription list because I don’t have recommendations.
I turned off my YouTube history and now it just gives me a blank homepage with some vaguely threatening message claiming I won’t have any recommendations until I turn it back on. Joke’s on them, I’ve been trying to get YouTube to clear the junk off my homepage for years.
Back in the day (almost a decade ago), I would spend my free time telling every video that popped up on my homepage to not recommend that channel to me. After doing this for a few months, my homepage suddenly showed up blank! No recommendations, nothing. I took a screenshot of it at the time because I couldn’t believe that my homepage was finally clean.
I enjoyed my clean homepage for almost a year, until they revamped the site and everything came back.
I think it was sometime in the last year or two, they changed their homepage again and I started getting a blank screen with a notice, saying I needed to turn on history to get my recommendations back. No thanks, you just gave me exactly what I wanted!
Their recommendations were never anything I was interested in watching anyway. I’d click on a single news video about a local accident and then all I’d get in my feed is disaster compilation videos or something.
That’s why I have subscriptions; everything I want to watch is in my subscription list and I learn about new channels from friends. I don’t need a faulty algorithm to suggest content to me.
It’ll have to be my subscription list because I don’t have recommendations.
I turned off my YouTube history and now it just gives me a blank homepage with some vaguely threatening message claiming I won’t have any recommendations until I turn it back on. Joke’s on them, I’ve been trying to get YouTube to clear the junk off my homepage for years.
Back in the day (almost a decade ago), I would spend my free time telling every video that popped up on my homepage to not recommend that channel to me. After doing this for a few months, my homepage suddenly showed up blank! No recommendations, nothing. I took a screenshot of it at the time because I couldn’t believe that my homepage was finally clean.
I enjoyed my clean homepage for almost a year, until they revamped the site and everything came back.
I think it was sometime in the last year or two, they changed their homepage again and I started getting a blank screen with a notice, saying I needed to turn on history to get my recommendations back. No thanks, you just gave me exactly what I wanted!
Their recommendations were never anything I was interested in watching anyway. I’d click on a single news video about a local accident and then all I’d get in my feed is disaster compilation videos or something.
That’s why I have subscriptions; everything I want to watch is in my subscription list and I learn about new channels from friends. I don’t need a faulty algorithm to suggest content to me.