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suggestions are kinda the whole point of YouTube.
don't care if they're algorithm-based but they DO work (unlike for example example the twitter feed.) youtube suggests me some good shit and awesome new small channels all the time
i enjoy my YouTube subscription feed quite a lot. I've had watch history off forever and never really clicked on their suggestions.
the issue with the subscription feed is that
it makes it harder to find new channels to watch
it doesn't stop showing channels you don't care about anymore automatically like the algorithm feed
gives all channels the same value - i like some stuff more and some stuff less.
subscription feed prioritizes channels which release more videos (quantity over quality), which causes it to quickly fill up with clickbait and low-effort content unless you carefully watch your subscription list
(tbf, I'm not a privacy extremist, i don't care about first party tracking if it's actually used to provide a better service. "personalized" ads (and other third party stuff) can go fuck itself though)
Yeah. These are pretty much the reasons I've enabled watch history despite privacy concerns.