Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on::Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change.

  • undetermined@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Really looking forward to this. When I search videos on youtube, I get like 10 videos on the topic, then some videos from a completely unrelated topic and after that only videos from the “home” page. It’s very annoying and I’m really looking forward to turn all of this off.

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      1 year ago

      Especially in search results this is going to be huge. The home page on YT can be useful if you’re mindful of your clicks and steer the recommendation algorithm in a very specific direction. So there are pros and cons to this algorithm thing, so you might not want to disable it everywhere.

      A few years ago I noticed that the videos on the right hand side were no longer relevant to what I was watching at the time. I found that change really annoying, so going back to the old days would be refreshing.