I get that I’m apparently the weird one here, but I don’t get why people put up with this instead of just using your subscriptions feed. I turned off watch history a long time ago and it has been great.
Indeed. I understand the algorithm hate round here, and if someone decides that they don’t want any recommendations from Google at all that’s their business, but I do appreciate some of what they send my way. Recently, whether due to a tweak on the back end or a quirk of my recent watch history, I’ve found I’ve been getting a fair number of very small channels filtering into my recommendations. Without those recs, I’m never gonna find someone’s 712 view video from 3 years ago about scratch building an original spaceship design, so I’m happy to have a space where those can show up in addition to my personally curated subscription feed.
This is what I do. I’ve had history turned off for a few years now. It’s also helped curtail my watching if YouTube since it won’t recommend more stuff.
I get that I’m apparently the weird one here, but I don’t get why people put up with this instead of just using your subscriptions feed. I turned off watch history a long time ago and it has been great.
I’ve found loads of actually good and interesting high effort content from recommendations.
Indeed. I understand the algorithm hate round here, and if someone decides that they don’t want any recommendations from Google at all that’s their business, but I do appreciate some of what they send my way. Recently, whether due to a tweak on the back end or a quirk of my recent watch history, I’ve found I’ve been getting a fair number of very small channels filtering into my recommendations. Without those recs, I’m never gonna find someone’s 712 view video from 3 years ago about scratch building an original spaceship design, so I’m happy to have a space where those can show up in addition to my personally curated subscription feed.
The challenge is the load of A.I. slop it throws my way. I appreciate the big and small channels that share actual helpful information.
Every time I visit youtube, I have to block at least 30 A.I. slop channels
This is what I do. I’ve had history turned off for a few years now. It’s also helped curtail my watching if YouTube since it won’t recommend more stuff.