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.

    • Thorny_Thicket
      113·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • wrath-sedan@kbin.social
        16·
        1 year ago

        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

      • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Snapz@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago
        1. 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.
        2. I don’t trust a big org’s algorithm to not recommend what benefits then over what benefits me.
    • rubikcuber@feddit.uk
      6·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely. When I used to use YouTube I had a browser extension that directed the home page to my subscriptions.