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I think what you describe is what infecto was saying. You can't use YouTube to find interesting content anymore. You can only use it to find more of what you've already seen. In the past, it was better at unearthing new things.

Personally, I added uBlock filters so the home page is empty and recommended videos aren't shown. I only ever go to subscriptions now.

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It doesn't even show me more of what I've already seen, half the sidebar is videos I've already watched (or watched halfway before dropping, with a helpful indicator of my lack of progress). Like, "we see you like video X, why don't you watch video X today?" Thanks, I already have bookmarks.

> I added uBlock filters so the home page is empty and recommended videos aren't shown. I only ever go to subscriptions now.

There's a setting to turn it off, no need for uBlock filters for that

It's the hammer I have and it works on those nails, hah.

Fair enough, just FYI. I couldn't be bothered to set that up on mobile personally; nice thing about the account setting is it will apply everywhere then (assuming logged in).

What setting is this? I'd love to disable the home page but I haven't seen any setting for it

Turn off your watch history.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725

Ah, I wanted a setting explicitly. I'd like to preserve my watch history, i only want to disable the home and recommendations.

Similarly, I use Unhook because it gives me fine control over what YT displays. I now find YT to be completely unusable without it.

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