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 ?
You are using the official client? It’s terrible on pretty much any platform
I’m using revanced
Looks like I’m canceling my YouTube Premium Subscription.
i pay less than $2/m cos “I’m from Argentina” :)
Let’s hope this applies to Google TV homescreen too.
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.
Actually nice.
nice. i disabled my history for this very reason.
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Piped servers a getting blocked by Google apparently
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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.
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
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.
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.
How are they going to know what to recommend if they have no idea what you’re interested in?
I’m genuinely surprised how many people don’t like youtube recommendations. It works really well for me
Messed around with it. If I have zero video history and turn it on it has accurate recommendations, based on videos I’ve recently watched (while watch history was disabled).
They seemed to manage just fine before the change. I had watch history off and I got fairly relevant suggestions based on the view I was currently watching along with my subscriptions.
This isn’t about suggesting videos this is about making users accept lesser levels of privacy in order to get more money from targeted advertising by withholding previously functional features.
Like they managed before?
You’ll never go back. It doesn’t take much to set up. There are guides.
Already all done sub 15 minutes.
I vouch for Newpipe 👍
I uninstalled Spotify after I found newpipe. I add all my fav songs in playlist and when I want to list, I hit play all and all my fav songs starts to play. Love it! Newpipe is the best
Check out InnerTune on f-droid. You’ll find it’s even better than Newpipe for music.
I’ve been using ViMusic for music and it’s great but I’ve downloaded my favorite songs on deezer with deemix and I’m using jellyfin to stream them lately …but I’ll check InnerTune anyway 😄
I’ve used it. Some songs refuse to play and sometimes it just stops responding to touch. I am using a custom rom, A13 so not sure if its the ROM or app. If its working fine for you then checkout musify and blackhole.
Wait, that’s all I have to do? Now I just need to figure out how to turn video history off.
That is bloody lovely to not get distracted
yup, I didn’t say it was bad, I just said they made this a thing :)
If you want you can use revanced to remove the home page completely and enter subscriptions page automatically.
Oh, nice! I really appreciate those rare occasions where Google makes my experience better.
one word for you, my friend. Revanced
it’s the same on revanced and they’re wrong it’s on pc too
