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Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction

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111 points ambigious7777 | 2 comments | 18 May 25 11:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.06s | source
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trwhite ◴[18 May 25 12:20 UTC] No.44020814[source]▶
What did it for me was disabling my history (a setting). Consequently your YT homepage is blank and it doesn’t suggest any shorts. You can maintain a kind of history by liking videos or just via the browser itself.
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raydev ◴[18 May 25 20:47 UTC] No.44024213[source]▶
Why would you disable history?
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trwhite ◴[18 May 25 22:08 UTC] No.44024661[source]▶
Without history Youtube doesn't know what you like and therefore can't suggest videos to watch on the homepage.
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1. raydev ◴[18 May 25 22:19 UTC] No.44024721[source]▶
What's the benefit? You have to look at the homepage anyway, right?
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2. rurp ◴[18 May 25 23:12 UTC] No.44025000[source]▶
I get value from not having to look at content I find annoying and uninteresting, or at least avoid the negative value of having that stuff on the screen.