Youtube feed gone?

In My Humble Opinion
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This just started today, for me.
Youtube video feed suggestion thingy is gone, in its place a message to “start searching so we can build a history …” Can’t remember the exact wording off hand, but like that. First saw this in the morning, nothing has changed, was watching a few videos last night before bed, no new updates to any software on my end, haven’t changed any settings.
Did a few searches this morning when I first noticed it and nothing, not even a search history showing that I had done any searches.

Anyone else experiencing this?

This is on my iphone14 running ios 18.4, I don’t log in to youtube and do not use the app ever.
Of course there doesn’t seem to be any problem with chrome on a windows machine(checked on my dad’s computer just to see)

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Don’t worry, probably updating the feature to be more invasive or sell ad space.

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My Roku YouTube app will sometimes do that and then going back out and in again it will remember my history and give recommendations again. I think it’s a glitch where it loses track of your history.

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My kindle did this last night and discovered that it had somehow logged me off.

I had to log back in and all was well.

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Remember that logging in to Google-anything is the same as logging in to YouTube. It’s pretty much mandatory on Androids; the device is real crippled without it. It’s much more optional on Apples, but that doesn’t mean you personally aren’t logged in for gmail or whatever.

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I’m moving this to IMHO, as it’s really a computer question, not a question about arts, etc.

We generally use IMHO for advice, which this post seems to be seeking.

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:man_facepalming:
Thanks @puzzlegal, got wrapped up in not having videos and forgot that it was a technical, not artistic question

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You are using the YouTube website on your phone’s browser? You’re not logged in?

If you’re not logged in YouTube can’t reliably save your history. You probably lost your cookie somehow (outside of YT’s control) and it no longer knows who you are.

They may have also changed policy to no longer keep history if you’re not logged in. They need more data from you.

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Just checking back in with this.
It had now, just this weekend, changed to no cookies saved with history and settings preference on youtube for me. Yes, not logged in and has never been a problem before. I tend to think it’s an adblock thing on youtube’s part. They don’t like them and I have one because I’m not willing to watch 5 minutes of ads at the beginning plus abrupt interruptions for additional ads plus video sponsor ads from the creator of the video so that I can watch a 10 minute video. Youtube is utterly unreasonable imho on the ads.

I guess it’s manual searching for me from now on

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Ugh, I know what you mean. A few weeks ago, I looked up the full video clip of “The Bloodline’s Trial of Sami Zayn”, a pro wrestling segment that was about 20 or 25 minutes long, and it started with an unskippable advertisement. It had two further interruptions for ads before anyone even got the chance to speak.