Doesn't that make sense? How would they know what to recommend if they don't store the history of what you watch?

Yes I know it's bogus and they store it anyway - but just to humor the theory.

That is bloody lovely to not get distracted

Is this a con for people?

The recommendation algorithm has always been garbage to me.

Is this bad? I really wouldn't want YouTube to recommend me random garbage if they didn't know what I already watched

Oh, nice! I really appreciate those rare occasions where Google makes my experience better.

I vouch for Newpipe 👍

Actually nice.

Am I the only one to find Google to be completely stupid here? Aren't they missing out on a chance to push videos with ads?

What's up with the weird logo on YouTube lately?

Wait, that's all I have to do? Now I just need to figure out how to turn video history off.

You are using the official client? It's terrible on pretty much any platform

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.

ok. first to-do things on my list now.

Seriously, youtube recommendation become a trash. All it recommend me is propaganda videos even though I'm never interested in it. Gone are the golden age where youtubers don't simp for like, share, subscribe and comment.

It's on topic. You're good. 👍

one word for you, my friend. Revanced

Let's hope this applies to Google TV homescreen too.

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?)

nice. i disabled my history for this very reason.

I still get recommendations on the Android Youtube App and my watch history is completely empty and turned off.

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.

they started rolling this out on desktop too now