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YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions
(support.google.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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I'm not clear on why some people have a problem with this. If Youtube's algorithm doesn't know you from Adam it can't recommend things that might be relevant to your interests and just feeds you the popular crap, which artificially inflates the popular crap even further and creates an additional incentive to publish click-bait and rage-bait garbage.
This just seems like Youtube cutting that feedback loop. I don't see what's bad about people having to actually look for content they want rather than feeding from a trough.
Youtube knows I have subscribed to 515 channels, I have liked 2364 videos and favourited 685. It already floods the recommended videos with others based on "Users who follow<creator Y> enjoy videos of <creator X>".
They for sure do not require my watch history to be able to recommend videos to me.
I can’t speak for everyone else, but the only recommendations I want to see are ones directly relevant to the video I have pulled up in front of me. I can get why that is not exactly what everyone wants though.
I want no sidebar recommendations period.
I actually like the sidebar, but only for videos related to the one I'm currently watching.
@TheButtonJustSpins I also remember the times before the Algorithm™️, when the sidebar actually showed relevant videos to the one you watched.
Having watch history off doesn't mean having no history at all. I have my watch history filled with only the videos I enjoyed (mostly videos with fit girls) before I turned it off. Youtube only recommends me stuffs based on those (and my likes/subscriptions obviously). I can watch whatever random videos I found while pooping and never have to worry it might screw up yt recommendations.