YouTube “à la minute” – iPhoneBlog.de

I love getting lost on YouTube on a dull Saturday morning, but when I find myself doing this on a Monday morning at the office, I get very annoyed.

The YouTube app on the home screen was (my) mistake (for years). It pushes you into a hole; even if we shorts exclude once.

With Play or Unwatched I have targeted access to my subscribed channels; there is no Trackto start with a recommendation because you are drawn in by a cover image or fall for a clickbait headline.

As soon as you open the website or app to watch it, you are bombarded with “recommended videos” on the left, right, top and bottom – from the homepage, sidebar to the auto-play feature directly after a video (“Auto-Play next video” must be deactivated!)

If you’ve turned off YouTube watch history and don’t have a significant previous watch history, starting today we’ll turn off features that rely on watch history to provide video recommendations – like your YouTube home feed. That means starting today your home feed may look very different: you may see the search bar and left-hand Guide menu, but no feed of recommended videos. That lets you search more easily, browse subscribed channels, and explore topic tabs instead.

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Recommendations are not available even if you turn off your “Watch History” (My Google Activity), but then you also lose the Entertainment for those so-called “uneventful Saturday mornings” when you want to lose yourself in a topic on the video platform.