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@sopuli.xyz
    103·
    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.

    • Wisely@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have no watch history on my account and it kept recommending me Trump and anti lgbt videos. I never watched anything like that before and definitely don’t subscribe.

    • 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.