No more YouTube recommendations on Android if video history is turned off
This is explained on this support answer
It's a thing on Revanced YT even if spoofing an old version. Applies to the web version as well now
This seems to be due to some new EU law ?
Is this a con for people?
The recommendation algorithm has always been garbage to me.
Is this bad? I really wouldn't want YouTube to recommend me random garbage if they didn't know what I already watched
lol, I've always kept my watch history "paused" and YouTube always recommends... the videos I've already seen. Great. Thanks.
Yt already recommends videos I've seen which is why I turned it off, now it doesn't know what I'm interested in based on previous vids I've seen
Oh, nice! I really appreciate those rare occasions where Google makes my experience better.
Actually nice.
Am I the only one to find Google to be completely stupid here? Aren't they missing out on a chance to push videos with ads?
Yes and no. Without a users video history (& other tracking turned off) best they can do is push random ads hoping it would hit one in a million. That is not effective and sometimes even diseffective (hitting a controversially opposite target). Tha harms YouTube on both ends more than the ad’s company
By pushing users to turn it on they apparently gain more than just pushing random horse crap.
Yeah that's it for me, I'm done with the YT app. They keep making it shittier. Guess I'll give revanced a look.
You'll never go back. It doesn't take much to set up. There are guides.
Already all done sub 15 minutes.
What's up with the weird logo on YouTube lately?
Click it and it will show you.
Some calligraphy thing
Piped servers a getting blocked by Google apparently
Just checked right now, Piped doesn't load any videos anymore. However, Invidious still works. NewPipe (which directly connects to YouTube, doesn't go through a Piped instance) on Android also works.
Wait, that's all I have to do? Now I just need to figure out how to turn video history off.
You are using the official client? It's terrible on pretty much any platform
I'm using revanced
It's on topic. You're good. 👍
one word for you, my friend. Revanced
it's the same on revanced and they're wrong it's on pc too
ok. first to-do things on my list now.
Seriously, youtube recommendation become a trash. All it recommend me is propaganda videos even though I'm never interested in it. Gone are the golden age where youtubers don't simp for like, share, subscribe and comment.
Looks like I'm canceling my YouTube Premium Subscription.
i pay less than $2/m cos "I'm from Argentina" :)
Do Revanced or Piped allow you to easily cast now? That was my main issue with them a while ago (I'm on a Pixel 6 Pro, maybe it was my phone?)
I think it works now but I can't verify right now.
Let's hope this applies to Google TV homescreen too.
I still get recommendations on the Android Youtube App and my watch history is completely empty and turned off.
Slowly rolling out
I just noticed it on the web browser. Great stuff. The home feed is just gone now.
👍 👍
nice. i disabled my history for this very reason.
This happened to me a year ago I think. There was no way I was going to turn on watch history. Previously it would make recommendations based on my subscriptions, and that was fine, so why use watch history? It resulted in me almost never using YouTube, and after a few months it went back to normal. Maybe you can wait it out.
they started rolling this out on desktop too now
That is bloody lovely to not get distracted
yup, I didn't say it was bad, I just said they made this a thing :)