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Dare Obasanjo Aug 8, 2023

YouTube will no longer show recommendations if you disable watch history.

This both makes the connection clearer that the recommendations are based on what you’ve previously watched and not some “nefarious algorithm” and continues big tech’s march to please the EU’s anti-algorithm demands.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/08/youtube-update-homepage-watch-history/

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Renee DiResta

@carnage4life tbf they changed things quite a bit around 2019. I got a lot of recos of pretty extreme stuff that was not based on my own previous watches in years prior. I think the complaints persist somewhat unfairly since that shift did matter, but they could do better on the transparency front.