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You could make a list of demographic fitted choices based on info on the user. One wonders if you couldn't whip up something that would whip up a list of choic
by michaelmrose 1y ago
You could make a list of demographic fitted choices based on info on the user.
One wonders if you couldn't whip up something that would whip up a list of choices by operating locally only on the users history returning just a list of things to show on the page and forgetting it when the user closed the tab.
- Macha 1y agoHonestly having occasionally glimpsed the logged out YouTube page which appears to do this... I'm glad that I don't have to deal with that either. As for what they should do, I think populating the homepage from the subscriptions list (either literally as an ordered list or by some algorithmic "watch time vs average watch time for this creator", I don't care) would be preferable.
- Barbing 1y agoGreat idea! If the goal were anything but discouraging disabling watch history, they’d take care to design a page not so strikingly barren. Video categories, subscriptions, trending searches (not saying we’d WANT that), Google-curated selections, recommendations based on user choices (“what kinds of videos should we show you, want daily news/sportballs/music recs?”)
- londons_explore 1y ago> operating locally only on the users history Most users won't understand how that works. As far as they're concerned "youtube watches what I do", and any explanations about how the algorithm runs locally but google can still see what you watch if they look at IP logs will be far beyond a typical users desire to understand.