Oh, so it's their fault YouTube is a disorienting, addiction-driving hellscape now. Good to be able to put a name to it. >The homepage showed a bunch of videos

Oh, so it's their fault YouTube is a disorienting, addiction-driving hellscape now. Good to be able to put a name to it. >The homepage showed a bunch of videos that were driven by a mass algorithm (and was pretty much the same experience whether a person was logged in or not). This was good. Your experience was grounded. Same thing with every video showing the same recommendations for at least a few weeks at a time. The idea that UIs need to be constantly shuffling content so that you can't tell which way is up as you navigate and will therefore submit more fully to The Algo is poisonous.