I don’t think they’re actually forcing people to turn it on, but they don’t show any videos to play on the homepage with it off. Searching for videos works normally though. At least that’s how it is for me now.
From what I understand, they’re removing all recommendations from the home page if you have watch history turned off, likely because they can’t give you any decent recommendations without data to recommend from. All you’d see is the search bar.
Personally, I think this is a great change. Default YT home screen has some of the worst recommendations I’ve ever seen, and if I’m telling them not to track my watch history, I probably don’t want to see whatever content they’re promoting to the average user either.
I’m glad they stopped recommending things to me with my history off. I just want to see my subscriptions I don’t want to see what the algorithm thinks I want to see.
Now there forcing people who have their watch history off to turn back it on
Source please
I don’t think they’re actually forcing people to turn it on, but they don’t show any videos to play on the homepage with it off. Searching for videos works normally though. At least that’s how it is for me now.
Which only hurts content creators. If you sign out, videos show up just fine.
What?? How??
From what I understand, they’re removing all recommendations from the home page if you have watch history turned off, likely because they can’t give you any decent recommendations without data to recommend from. All you’d see is the search bar.
Personally, I think this is a great change. Default YT home screen has some of the worst recommendations I’ve ever seen, and if I’m telling them not to track my watch history, I probably don’t want to see whatever content they’re promoting to the average user either.
I’m glad they stopped recommending things to me with my history off. I just want to see my subscriptions I don’t want to see what the algorithm thinks I want to see.