This is explained on this support answer
It’s a thing on Revanced YT even if spoofing an old version. Applies to the web version as well now
This seems to be due to some new EU law ?
Doesn’t that make sense? How would they know what to recommend if they don’t store the history of what you watch?
Yes I know it’s bogus and they store it anyway - but just to humor the theory.
Maybe they can just ask you about what you want to watch?
Speaking of which, have you watched the movie yet? Pretty good right? ☺️
I feel like that defeats the purpose of automated recommendations, since you can still search for the videos (that you want to watch) and create playlists either way.
Hah that would make sense indeed. Right against Google’s modus operandi though.
What movie? Barbie? (Guessing based on your username.) Not yet. I’m binging Star Trek SNW now.
You’ve been on LW for this long and don’t know about me.😭
And I participated in both Star War Memes and Totally Not Robots after you made them…
I know about you, I just don’t remember if we’ve talked about some movie. My memory isn’t what it used to be.
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That is bloody lovely to not get distracted
yup, I didn’t say it was bad, I just said they made this a thing :)
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Is this bad? I really wouldn’t want YouTube to recommend me random garbage if they didn’t know what I already watched
lol, I’ve always kept my watch history “paused” and YouTube always recommends… the videos I’ve already seen. Great. Thanks.
Yt already recommends videos I’ve seen which is why I turned it off, now it doesn’t know what I’m interested in based on previous vids I’ve seen
Oh, nice! I really appreciate those rare occasions where Google makes my experience better.
Actually nice.
Just gonna put this here: https://freetubeapp.io/
Enjoy 😊
I uninstalled Spotify after I found newpipe. I add all my fav songs in playlist and when I want to list, I hit play all and all my fav songs starts to play. Love it! Newpipe is the best
Check out InnerTune on f-droid. You’ll find it’s even better than Newpipe for music.
I’ve used it. Some music refuse to play and sometimes it just stops responding to touch. I am using a custom rom, A13 so not sure if its the ROM or app. If its working fine for you then checkout musify and blackhole.
I’ve been using ViMusic for music and it’s great but I’ve downloaded my favorite songs on deezer with deemix and I’m using jellyfin to stream them lately …but I’ll check InnerTune anyway 😄
Am I the only one to find Google to be completely stupid here? Aren’t they missing out on a chance to push videos with ads?
Yes and no. Without a users video history (& other tracking turned off) best they can do is push random ads hoping it would hit one in a million. That is not effective and sometimes even diseffective (hitting a controversially opposite target). Tha harms YouTube on both ends more than the ad’s company
By pushing users to turn it on they apparently gain more than just pushing random horse crap.
There’s not really much evidence that targeted ads work any better than random ads. Plus they already have a point of data to serve ads: what video the user is watching.
Edit: both ends = b2b&b2c
Honestly this is making me want to turn mine off, but having a watch history is very convenient
What’s up with the weird logo on YouTube lately?
Click it and it will show you.
Some calligraphy thing
It’s on topic. You’re good. 👍
Wait, that’s all I have to do? Now I just need to figure out how to turn video history off.
You are using the official client? It’s terrible on pretty much any platform
I’m using revanced
Do Revanced or Piped allow you to easily cast now? That was my main issue with them a while ago (I’m on a Pixel 6 Pro, maybe it was my phone?)
I think it works now but I can’t verify right now.
nice. i disabled my history for this very reason.
one word for you, my friend. Revanced
it’s the same on revanced and they’re wrong it’s on pc too
ok. first to-do things on my list now.
Seriously, youtube recommendation become a trash. All it recommend me is propaganda videos even though I’m never interested in it. Gone are the golden age where youtubers don’t simp for like, share, subscribe and comment.
