Tell HN: YouTube requires watch history on for home screen
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158674">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158674</a><p>Tell HN: YouTube is not showing home recommendations when watch history is off
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157835">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157835</a><p>YouTube Will Display a Blank Home Feed If Your Watch History Is Turned Off
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151135">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151135</a><p>YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066718">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066718</a><p>YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058189">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058189</a><p>YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054233">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054233</a><p>YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817</a><p>Ash HN: YouTube home page blank when history is off
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963702">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963702</a>
They wrote a blog post about this change last week as if it was a good thing.<p>It's not a good thing: "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."<p>I'm still not enabling my watch history.
I've had to clear my like and watch history a few times, since I'll watch foreign language tech videos and it often messes up my feed. History off was my default to fix yt's issues.<p>Theres a browser extension, pockettube, that turns yt into a cable network, tons of features, it really has made yt more usable and enjoyable.<p><a href="https://pockettube.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pockettube.io/</a><p>I wish someone would make a pockettube type app that wasnt just for yt, but also worked with other video services. Maybe give me a priority of videos per platform, so I could pick the platform that makes the most money for the creator.<p>Its kinda like rss feeds with a front end, amazed nobody has made this, we have it for podcasts and news, but not video platforms? so strange.
I'd trade this for the eradication of shorts. The format is simply mind-numbing, and the volume of low effort content with zero relevance is a big turn off.
as someone who is never logged in, this was actually the case a week ago. However, it has since returned to the old ways (which means that I get suggestions that are based on my history).
(Europe, Firefox)