It's been like this for quite a while. What about it?

Nostalgia marketing operates on roughly 20 to 30 year cycles, so we're dead center of 90s nostalgia. As the current decade wears on, there should be a gradual shift to 2000s era nostalgia (and another revival of the 80s, the most marketable decade). I can't say that looming war in the middle east doesn't give me those warm Bush 2 era vibes, though we are a bit early for it.

The best thing about this. No shorts.

I'm curious on what your solution to this would be? There is already a page to browse your subscriptions, and a page to browse the popular stuff.

The home page specifically is to find new videos based on your history, so with no history what would it show?

That's the type of stuff I love YouTube for. I don't watch it like I used to but when I do it'll usually recommend me something else I'd enjoy.

...in addition to shorts I don't want to watch and tons of videos I've already watched. At least I don't get the right wing trash most people get.

I actually like this. No politics. No big name personalities. No distractions.

Just a search bar to ASK me what I want to see before it tells me what it thinks I want to see.

Just came here to say this.

The suggested videos are terrible.

But then it shows you one bad result and then "other people also viewed this" and its just some barely related shorts

Congrats! And condolences.

Compared to seeing Mr.Beast clone 678-1080 taking up the front with jimmy Kimmel for some reason, Yea I'd rather see a blank page too.

Get the extension "DeArrow" it replaces thumbnails with random frames from the video and let's the community edit titles, and auto un-capitalizes titles.

YouTube in the past suggested things to you even without having a profile on you. You can suggest things to people without having their complete or partial watch history. Some videos are popular with nearly everyone with factors like watch time, user engagement, upvotes, shares, etc.

Right now they're not doing that. They're explicitly refusing to do that for all users.

Honestly, I like it. I run google and all of its platforms in their own tab containers, without signing in and that's what my Youtube looks like. It's great, I can search for the thing I need, and otherwise interact with google ad spam as little as possible

ReVanced (a patched version of the official app) is straight up better than Premium because it can get rid of all the crap corporate insists on shoving into customers' faces. My YouTube app has a subscriptions tab (that only shows videos, not shorts or random
"informative" carousels) and my profile tab with all my playlists, and nothing else.

It's glorious in its simplicity. Why would I ever pay Google for a worse product?

It's almost like old school Google front page.

Yeah, considering what garbage tends to top the trending charts at YT, I think a blank page is better than if they just show the most popular videos of the day.

This is what our company one looks like. History disabled.

Imagine a memory care when you go to put on music you get recommendations for Meagan the stallion and lil boosie

It really makes you realize the slop being shoveled by the algorithm

Also if you turn off your viewing history.

Same Ada.

I'd rather see nothing than the slop the algorithm keeps plastering across my screen. (Though I do like the topic buttons at the top.)

I specifically disabled my watch history to get this. If I want to watch something, I'll go to my subscriptions. Why would I want to interact with YouTube's algorithm?