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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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[–] schema 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

90% of my recommendations are videos I have already watched.

[–] ilickfrogs 5 points 1 year ago

This is one of my biggest pet peeves about YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have an addon that makes watched videos gray and adds a WATCHED tag to them. Makes it more satisfying to browse, knowing you won't get tricked into wasting time rewatching something. Now you can waste time watching NEW useless stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Youtube recommendations used to be an amazing way to find new music. Sometimes you even had a little community of people in the comments going from video to video.

Another casualty of enshittification, I guess.

[–] jigsaw250 1 points 1 year ago

I've only been getting that recently.

It's like I just watched 50 minutes of this hour video, took it out of my Watch Later and enjoyed it enough to actually give it a Like, why the hell would you recommend it to me again.