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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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have the opposite experience. YouTube is always pushing dumbass recommendations. I only go to YouTube when someone links to a video I'm interested in, say some neat demonstration of a old analog synthesizer, and there'll be a couple of slightly interesting suggestions on synths, I'll click on that and then the recommendations are like "Woah!!! Check out what happens when I stick a synth cable into my butt!!!" And it's not because I ever watch videos like that, in fact that shit is what makes me close the YouTube window and never go back until some other website links me directly to an actually good video again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I only go to YouTube when someone links to a video I'm interested in

I wonder if this is part of the discrepancy, as I use YouTube pretty much all day long. I work from home and pretty much always put some YouTube videos on my TV while I'm working. Maybe YT just has a more robust dataset for my account to filter recommendations better.

"Woah!!! Check out what happens when I stick a synth cable into my butt!!!" And it's not because I ever watch videos like that

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