YouTube Home Feed Empty With History Off, Anyone Else?
I've had my YT history off for years, today I was prompted to check the setting. I kept it off, now my Home feed is just a prompt to turn it on. I actually like it.
Why do you hate the recommendations? For me it goes thru my subs and pics the videos I'm actually interested about and then fills the gaps with related videos at which it seems to do pretty good job at.
Yeah not impossible to get good recs, I just find them more often to be not that helpful/interesting. Also they really soak up everything, so if I watch one video about solar panels or something my feed is suddenly 8 deep-dives into what BIG SOLAR doesn’t want me to know
I've curated my subs for years and there are basically no videos I don't wanna watch from it. YouTube fails to include all the videos I watch, so the recommendations are useless for me, unless I caught up with my sub feed already.
It's a big miss for me most times - because I watched a video critical of a far right wing nut job DOES NOT mean I want to see videos from prageru (not an actual university) or toiletpaperusa.
I don't trust a big org's algorithm to not recommend what benefits then over what benefits me.
I recently disabled history after getting annoyed about getting bombarded with recommended videos for something I only needed to watch once (e.g. a recipe, or instructions on how to repair something).
Now my YT homepage is literally stuck with the same videos, even the ones I've already watched. Doesn't matter how many times I refresh.
YouTube recommendation algorithm is extremely rudimentary, it's shocking. I really wished that they gave us the ability to tune the recommendation model, or some sort of include exclude filtering.
Been doing so over and over. The problem is that the recommendation model is pretty basic. You start watching a new channel or new topics, your recos start being mostly about topics related to the new channel/topics.
If I'm subbed to 200 channels, rarely do I get recos from channels I've subbed to early on. As a dev, I would love for the ability to tune what gets shown on the home page.
I usually just go straight to my subscriptions feed, but now that my home feed is literally a glorified searchbar, I wonder if I can just remove it. I use the Re[redacted]ed app on mobile, and I wonder if there's a setting or an "add-on" I can use to do that.
If you set your default search engine to Duck Duck Go you can use “!yt” followed by your search terms and it’ll go right to the results on YouTube. There’s a whole lot of other bangs, too. I do it with google maps all the time with “!gm.”