YouTube introduced at present that it’s altering how its house web page works in case you have your watch historical past disabled. Beginning at present, the video service’s house feed will cease showing for these with their viewing historical past turned off and “no vital prior watch historical past.” The change will present a extra streamlined searching expertise, exhibiting solely the search bar and information menu.
“Beginning at present, in case you have YouTube watch historical past off and don’t have any vital prior watch historical past, options that require watch historical past to supply video suggestions will probably be disabled — like your YouTube house feed,” the corporate wrote in a blog post at present. “Which means beginning at present, your private home feed could look so much completely different: you’ll have the ability to see the search bar and the left-hand information menu, with no feed of really helpful movies, thus permitting you to extra simply search, browse subscribed channels and discover Matter tabs as an alternative.”
YouTube says the modifications will seem “slowly, over the following few months.” The corporate describes the transfer as making “it extra clear which YouTube options depend on watch historical past to supply video suggestions and make it extra streamlined for these of you preferring to look reasonably than browse suggestions.”
YouTube says, as soon as the change rolls out to your account, you’ll be able to change your watch historical past settings to modify views at any time. The toggle is in a devoted part on the My Google Activity settings web page.
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