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

submitted 2 years 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] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, what is this new feature YouTube is doing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As far as I know, it recommends videos on the top page based on your viewing history

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I thought that was always a thing...

[–] Pratai 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don’t have a feed if I don’t turn on recommendations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

i see only one mention of freetube, kinda criminal with how good it is

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I've had history turned off for years, like easily a decade. I only get dumb things I don't care about recommended to me, like Madonna videos, as they're taking random stabs in the dark at engaging me. What I do watch on YouTube is drag queens and videos of sovereign citizens being teased, but they never get suggested.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I'm almost completely off YouTube already and now I find videos annoying and a waste of time.

I watch videos from udemy to learn something though.

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