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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Not really, I like what I like because I like it. I no longer binge mindlessly, I just binge mindfully. I’m using Freetube for many years now.
90% of my recommendations are videos I have already watched.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves about YouTube.
I’ve only been getting that recently.
It’s like I just watched 50 minutes of this hour video, took it out of my Watch Later and enjoyed it enough to actually give it a Like, why the hell would you recommend it to me again.
Youtube recommendations used to be an amazing way to find new music. Sometimes you even had a little community of people in the comments going from video to video.
Another casualty of enshittification, I guess.
No. Mine decreased when ad frequency increased.
I’ve primarily only watched my subscriptions for a few years now.
I took the steps to pry myself away from google. Turned off all that stuff, nuked my yt channel history, all that. Exporting sub’s into RSS feeds and invidious. Freetube is an awesome desktop app for watching yt. The only thing I miss is interacting in the comment section but also at same time a blessing since I am the kind of person to accidentally write a 5 paragraph essay noons would ever read, no yt comments means less chance if wasting my time.
Also as I got older my taste and willingness to sit in front of YouTube all day has changed When I was a teen I spend hours and hours watching gaming content. As an adult I have better shit to do and would rather actually play games myself. I my sub’s list has whittled down from 200 > 100 > 50 and I only get a few new vids in my feed a day if that.
I just turned on my history, watched the one video I submitted to my own channel, then turned it off again.
That’s apparently enough to bring your dashboard back.
I don’t use the recommended feature anyway, I have my subscriptions which I like, they are from good content creators, I don’t feel the need to go browsing through the utter garbage that is most of YouTube.
If I want channel recommendations I’ll wait until someone makes a list, traditionally that’s been Reddit, but I guess it’ll be on here now.
i see only one mention of freetube, kinda criminal with how good it is
No because I haven’t used the app for years so I’m not signed in. I use browser with uBlock “etc” on both mobile & laptop/desktop.
Any feeds that I watch regularly plus interesting videos I stumble on or recommended in places like !videos@lemmy.world i put directly into a notes app which syncs to all my devices. All grouped by length so its easy to find something depending on how little spare time I have to kill. Its a slight extra step compared to clicking “watch later” in the YouTube app but ive done it for so long now its become second nature
Wait, if I switch it off, will it stop me getting recommendations for shorts? Id totally do it then. Tbh ive told myself this year tostop mindless scrolling so its good to hear youre feeling more deliberate.
It will start giving you recommendations for popular shorts. And that shit is cancer, let me tell you
Jeezus, that almost seems evil. “Give us your data or we’ll clog your front page with the click baitiest, cancer inducing content we have”.
Well, if we look at that with their logic, showing the popular shit makes sense, because it’s, well, popular, safe choice. The problem is, and they either ignore it or encourage it, that the algorithm promotes the most terrible things because the metrics is engaging and hate is as engaging, if not more, as other forms, and produces strong reactions.
No, the recommendations became shit ever since I put on ad blocker so I wasn’t really using them. If anything, now with history off I actually pay closer attention to the people I’m subscribed to since there is a subscription tag that I didn’t realize I was ignoring.
I never went to the homepage unless I accidentally landed there because of autofill. I normally just go straight to subscriptions. There are still recommendations under videos, so I check that out every so often, mostly because my secondary monitor is portrait and I can see them under the video
This is my standard. Subscriptions or bust.
There was a time, maybe 5+ years ago, when I’d occasionally go to YouTube’s homepage, right-click every video in the feed, and select “don’t recommend channel.” After doing that off and on for a year or so, I suddenly found myself with an empty homepage. Absolutely no videos would load, just a blank white screen with a YouTube search bar at the top. It was glorious.
That is, until Google updated YouTube and it removed all my preferences. Now I have unlimited video recommendations on my homepage and I can’t seem to make them all go away anymore. #BringBackOldYouTube
Same, the subscription page is essentially my homepage. It has exactly the content I want on it, and I can always use the sidebar recommendations if I feel like browsing for something new after my queue is complete.
I’ve noticed a lot of users on here actually really like the lack of recommendations. My use hasn’t gone down but I do miss having videos on the YouTube main page, particularly on my PC.
