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> How can you keep track of what you have and haven't seen YT does show you any progress you have made watching a video when viewing a channels video list > Y
by Crosseye_Jack 4y ago
> How can you keep track of what you have and haven't seen
YT does show you any progress you have made watching a video when viewing a channels video list
> Youtube may as well remove subscriptions and replace the home page with a big-ass "Random" button.
They are trying too. A number of YT’ers with partner managers or who have had conversations with staff, have said YT wished they could get rid of subscriptions entirely and rely on the algorithm instead. Tbf on this point, I hardly ever use the subscription page myself and either use the recommendation page or direct link/notifications, so I can see their point on not really caring about subscriptions, but you know we as humans do like to see numbers increase.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoThis would make me immediately drop YouTube for good. I only view videos via subscriptions and organic recommendations. No subscriptions basically means no YouTube for me.
- Crosseye_Jack 4y agoI don't believe subscriptions will be going away anytime soon. Creators still like the sub count even though it is pretty meaningless these days and YT themselves seem to have a love/hate relationship with it, while on one hand they want to do away with subscriptions, but on the other hand they still use the metric for things like being able to monetize content, access to features/services and they add things to the creator dashboard telling creators the percentage of viewer who are subed/unsubed and recently disabled to ability to hide your sub count from the public. And as you said there are viewers who exclusive use the subscriptions page, I used to be the same and had my default youtube "landing page" as the subs page. But YT changed something and broke that and before I could be bothered to fix it I found that I was enjoying atleast some of the content the algo was recommending to me so started using it more and more, and before I knew it I stopped using the subscriptions page entirely. So while they wish they could turn subscriptions off, I think they know it would cause too much backlash and would still have to still have to add a way for viewers to follow creators they want but make it more meaningful. I'm currently subscribed to over 500 channels but a lot of those channels could be removed from my list because it contains channels I no longer watch (be it because my tastes changed, the channels content changed, the channels are dead/retired) but I cba to go though the list and unsub. At which point a viewers sub list is just adding noise and delieverying (atleast some) content the viewer doesn't actually want to watch.
- precommunicator 4y ago> YT does show you any progress you have made watching a video when viewing a channels video list Not if you disabled history
- Gigachad 4y agoRe enable it then. Problem solved.
- precommunicator 4y agoSame as Google search history, no thanks, I don't want what I watch or search saved anywhere but my local browser history.
- viraptor 4y agoDoes Google guarantee that they don't collect the data anyway? I always understood that as "don't show me my history" rather than "don't collect my history". Fancy downloading your YouTube data checkout to verify?
- precommunicator 4y agoI did actually, no history there. But my point is also that in case of compromise of the (2FA with physical key, but still, Google can mess stuff up) account nobody can see what I watched.
- viraptor 4y agoThank you, that's certainly better than I expected!
- Gigachad 4y agoThen don't complain when youtube doesn't show you what you have watched. The tools are there if you want a nice experience.