While they were younger the kids only had access to YouTube on the main TV. You can’t underestimate the need to review and prune the watch history to keep it on track.
Interestingly I’ve noticed the recommendations tend to change depending on the time of day with more stuff appearing that grabs the whole families interest in the evenings when we are likely watching together or with one of the adults in charge of the remote.
Curate your watch history!
My YT feed is basically 80% I like, if I watch a video outside of my normal interests, I’ll get rid of it from my watch history.
My feed is very focused on infrastructure, computers, weird history videos and stuff like that.
While they were younger the kids only had access to YouTube on the main TV. You can’t underestimate the need to review and prune the watch history to keep it on track.
Interestingly I’ve noticed the recommendations tend to change depending on the time of day with more stuff appearing that grabs the whole families interest in the evenings when we are likely watching together or with one of the adults in charge of the remote.
I don’t sign in. Haven’t had an account for the better part of 10 years.
Then you ate missing out on the best tool for managing your youtube feed
I take my privacy where I can.
Ok, to my mind I feel it is more important to have the tools to shape my feed clean than to keep my watch history private.
But I can see the arguments for both sides, do you know if there are other frontends to youtube that you could use instead on the standard?
Yes I have given a few a try. The most reliable this far I have found are freetube and newPipe for android. Both break pretty frequently though.
I’ve pretty much given up on youtube.