The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 20:57 zuletzt editiert vonBetter than whatever brains of garbage would come up of it was just giving you a default based off what's popular.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 21:02 zuletzt editiert vonThey probably got tired of those videos where people see how quickly you can fall down an alt-right rabbit hole directly from the home page on a fresh account.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 21:25 zuletzt editiert vonThe only way to use YouTube.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 21:38 zuletzt editiert vonI can get this when logged in too! Just disable history! Its great.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 21:44 zuletzt editiert vonOnly positive change google has made in the last decade
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I'm like, "Is this what normal people in 2025 watch?" I feel like an alien on earth, except the planet changed and not me.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 21:45 zuletzt editiert vonWHY IS EVERYTHING SO FAST AND THERE IS SO MUCH TEXT AND MANY FILTERS AND EFFECTS STOP MAKING SUCH DEEP EYE CONTACT WITH ME AND MOVING AROUND AT A BREAKNECK PACE
I have ADHD and this is NOT made for me, it makes me DEEPLY uncomfortable. Every video seems like that gif of Morshu from Link: Faces of Evil sped up to hell moving around but explaining a shitty fake lifehack or something.
I hate it all.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 21:55 zuletzt editiert vonIt's been like this for quite a while. What about it?
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I assume its a cookie setting, as I see the same behavior when I turn off tracking protection and ad blockers.
It goes way deeper than that. Fingerprinting is a whole thing. Your IP, combined with some characteristics about your browser, operating system and hardware... pretty unique.
Interesting to see what YT "thinks" about you.
I see 1995 twice there.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 21:58 zuletzt editiert vonNostalgia 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.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:10 zuletzt editiert vonThe best thing about this. No shorts.
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Yes, that's what I meant. The home screen will just continue to inform you that your history is off. You can only sign out or browse your subscriptions.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:16 zuletzt editiert vonI'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?
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I don't know what you're talking about. I love my reccomended videos. I just watched a video about the reasons so many old subway stations use tile on the walls.
Spoiler alert, it's because in the early 19th century these stations were poorly lit, and white tile reflects light. So it made a small amount of light act as a bigger source of light. Plus it doesn't degrade and break down like paint or wood does over time.
Just one example of something that I would have never even wondered, but now I watched an interesting video explaining it. There was more to it than that, but I'm not going to go point by point of the video.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:17 zuletzt editiert vonThat'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.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:42 zuletzt editiert vonI 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.
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I can get this when logged in too! Just disable history! Its great.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:44 zuletzt editiert vonJust came here to say this.
The suggested videos are terrible.
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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.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:49 zuletzt editiert vonBut then it shows you one bad result and then "other people also viewed this" and its just some barely related shorts
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Good to know. As my posting history on Lemmy will show I definitely watch bread recipes videos.
In fact I became a mod for c/cooking today.schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:53 zuletzt editiert vonCongrats! And condolences.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 22:58 zuletzt editiert vonCompared 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.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 23:01 zuletzt editiert vonGet the extension "DeArrow" it replaces thumbnails with random frames from the video and let's the community edit titles, and auto un-capitalizes titles.
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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?
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 23:22 zuletzt editiert vonYouTube 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.
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Welcome to Youtube, person who has never been to Youtube before. Here's what we have to offer:
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 23:24 zuletzt editiert vonHonestly, 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
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You get a handful of results, after which you just get "recommended" AI slop shorts and completely irrelevant "suggestions".
If YT Red gave me the option to disable Shorts and "suggestions" I might pay for it but you can't pay your way out of this hellhole.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 23:31 zuletzt editiert von quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldReVanced (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?
