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has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I noticed my consumption has decased quite a bit. I would visit regularly to watch content from few channels. I would probably still visit every so often to watch the new videos. But the experience has become more deliberate and conscious. I go to YouTube because I want to go and watch something specific. Mindlessly browsing and watching additional content is harder.

This is good progress from Google to get off their platform :)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would I have my watch history turned off? I assumed that Google knows what I watched whether or not I tell them to keep that info available for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Before youtube disabled recommendation for people with watch history turned off, having watch history turned off made it so your recommendations were only based on channels you are subscribed to and possibly videos you've liked, commented on, ...

There are some categories where I only ever search for the category, then watch a video, but never subscribe to any channel. Those videos were never recommended to me. Meanwhile on my girlfriends pc with watch history turned on, as soon as I watch a single video from a channel she's not subscribed to similar videos appear all over the front page.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

watch history is kinda important to me because sometimes I want to continue watching or rewatch a video at a later time or on my pc instead of my phone and then watch history is the only way to easily find that video

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then save it to a playlist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How am I supposed to know I want to rewatch it beforehand ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well there's the Watch Later playlist and then if you don't know if you want to re-watch it after you've already watched it, there's nothing I can do for you.