has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature?

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has your YouTube consumption decreased after implementing the "no history, no recommendations" feature? - Lemmy

I noticed my consumption has decased quite a bit. I would visit regularly to watch content from few channels. I would probably still visit every so often to watch the new videos. But the experience has become more deliberate and conscious. I go to YouTube because I want to go and watch something specific. Mindlessly browsing and watching additional content is harder. This is good progress from Google to get off their platform :)

I’m watching less because I’m not getting any new or interesting recommendations. I just keep seeing the same stuff over and over again. I hate algorithms. I hate that something is deciding what I should watch while not showing me 99.999% of the other things on the platform.
Yes, the ads is a whole another level. Using it without ad-block is not pleasant one bit