I understand the sentiment, but gotta say YouTube is one service that is much better when logged in. I have my history and personalization disabled everywhere except YouTube. If I open YouTube’s front page in an incognito tab, it’s wall-to-wall trash on the level of Jerry Springer. Meanwhile I’ve been getting recommendations to my precise taste for years. Lots of good music found in the recs.
I don’t even open random YouTube links from social media under my account, so as to not mess up the recommendations. Always using an incognito tab instead (which is admittedly foiled by the ‘sign up’ thing when I have to use a vpn).
Hmmm, you’re right, it now tells me to “search to get started”. Guess the onslaught of total unmitigated crap as the default page for a region was rather embarrassing. That’s the downside of using the greatest common factor as the starting point.
Thankfully I have my own interests instead, and taught them to Youtube. Works like a charm.
I understand the sentiment, but gotta say YouTube is one service that is much better when logged in. I have my history and personalization disabled everywhere except YouTube. If I open YouTube’s front page in an incognito tab, it’s wall-to-wall trash on the level of Jerry Springer. Meanwhile I’ve been getting recommendations to my precise taste for years. Lots of good music found in the recs.
I don’t even open random YouTube links from social media under my account, so as to not mess up the recommendations. Always using an incognito tab instead (which is admittedly foiled by the ‘sign up’ thing when I have to use a vpn).
This was changed some time ago. This is YT front page when you’re logged out:
Which is exactly what I want to be recommended by YT.
Hmmm, you’re right, it now tells me to “search to get started”. Guess the onslaught of total unmitigated crap as the default page for a region was rather embarrassing. That’s the downside of using the greatest common factor as the starting point.
Thankfully I have my own interests instead, and taught them to Youtube. Works like a charm.
It’s less about privacy more about minimalism…
I don’t want too many accounts to manage… I just wanna watch a bunch of stuff and forget it