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> Google right now makes my youtube.com homepage blank, asking me to turn on my watch history. Google right now fills my youtube.com homepage with what is "pop

• benterix 3y ago
  To make it a bit brighter for you, many of these are just watched for a few seconds by bored teenagers sitting on a toilet without nothing better[0] to do. I'd be very surprised if people actually deliberately sat on the couch and spend hours watching this crap. [0] At least this is what they think/feel
  • twohaibei 3y ago
    I thought that too, until I visited my colleague who turned on their tv on those braincell killing videos and presented it as entertainment.
• svachalek 3y ago
  It's weird, I've had mine go back and forth between blank, popular garbage, and what seems to be inferred from like/subscribe data without using watch history. I assume this is some A/B testing flag they use and somehow I end up in different experiments.
• aqfamnzc 3y ago
  Oh man, me too. The garbage that fills the homepage of yt I think is truly the least-common-denominator bottom barrel stuff. We really have raced to the bottom with clickbait titles, thumbnails with "WOW" faces and neon colors, etc. (And that stuff really works! I find myself tempted sometimes to click on one just to see if some outrageous claim or feat is really true.)