The best decision YouTube ever did.

No, the best decision would be if they allowed us to disable shorts.

Almost makes up for YouTube Shorts

Shorts are nice when used properly. 60 second videos with no ads, subscription reminder or useless padding to reach 10 minutes? More, please! But channels which just upload excerpts of their recent videos as shorts just clutter my feed.
- The player has 0 controls, only vertical videos and you can't even filter them out permanently either. It is also full of low effort garbage spam that muddies search results. There's literally multiple channels that upload the same 5 videos every hour or so, using search terms / tags for other viral topics that have nothing to do with them. It's a fucking disaster.
Oh dear, please, don't give 'em ideas. lol

Thanks for the nostalgia. I haven't seen a login YT home feed in years, and I used to be a CC. YT has been a dumpster fire since the lobotomy of 2017.

It's even worse now. It used to have a gigantic "thumbnails" like a size of my middle and index finger combined.

They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.

Well, no shite. I'll use Chromium without adblock and signed-in account, then. I'll separate my YouTube and personal web browsing... oh wait, Firefox Containers exist.
- I'm definitely not going to watch ads if there's no way around them. I'd just move on. The platform has been on a constant downfall for me over the past decade anyway. Most of it is just clickbait shit and the recommendation algorithms became worse and worse too. Same with the search function. They don't even allow you to search for explicit terms using quotation marks anymore and I still don't understand why they did that. All my search results are muddled with unrelated garbage now, often times in front of the stuff I actually want to find.

What did youtube do?

You won't get video recommendations on your home feed (and maybe also other parts of youtube) if you have watch history disabled in your google account settings (you request google not to save your watch history).
- Why would people want this? How else do you find videos to watch?

Wait so you guys are disabling it or?

I leave it on, the suggestions are good as far as I can tell. What's everyone's beef with it?

I don't get the YouTube hate in general. It's much more interesting than Netflix or TV so I'm happy to pay, although I pay Argentina rates courtesy of subscribing while connected to my VPN and I use Sponsor Block to skip the in-video ad reads. It still counts
- Yeah, I'm all for privacy, but I actually get interesting things recommended by YouTube. If I turn this off won't I just get random YouTube videos? No thanks. I also do use my watch history for "I watched it the other day, what was that video called again?"
- I want to watch less YouTube so I leave recommendations off
I disabled my Google and YouTube's history settings since 2019.
- Some video suggestions let me suspect that this only disables me being able to see my history though.
There's a firefox plugin that redirects you to your subscriptions' uploads instead of that nonsense that "Home" was. Highly recommend.

They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.

Nice, isn't it?