slug@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions
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1 year agoyoutube suggestions are genuinely terrible for the individual and humanity as a whole
youtube suggestions are genuinely terrible for the individual and humanity as a whole
idk, i wonder if youtube could even work if you always had to be logged in. when i imagine what most of youtube’s activity is, i think of the foreign music videos with billions of views. could their ad model with those kinds of numbers possibly work if they put account auth barriers in front of it? how many hotel lobbies, barber shops, etc are playing youtube on loop logged out worldwide? netflix level drm would radically change the platform.
rss is working on the instance i’m using. make sure you’re on a recently updated one
these numbers are nearly reaching the point where buying seasons of shows on iTunes, which always seemed insanely expensive, becomes the better option for people who watch specific stuff. never thought I’d see the day