San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube has introduced that it’ll now not suggest movies to customers if their watch historical past is turned off.
“Starting today, if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history, features that require watch history to provide video recommendations will be disabled – like your YouTube home feed,” the corporate mentioned in a assist web page on Tuesday.
This implies that now customers’ dwelling feed could look quite a bit totally different.
Users will see the search bar and the left-hand information menu with no feed of really useful movies, permitting them to extra simply search, browse subscribed channels and discover Topic tabs.
The firm is rolling out this “new experience” to make it extra clear which YouTube options depend on watch historical past to supply video suggestions, and to make it extra streamlined for customers preferring to look moderately than browse suggestions.
“You can change your YouTube watch history settings at any time based on whether you prefer us to provide video recommendations or not,” the platform mentioned.
Last week, the video-sharing platform had introduced that it was testing synthetic intelligence (AI) auto-generated summaries.
This characteristic will make it simpler for customers to learn a fast abstract a few video and resolve whether or not it’s the proper match for them.
The firm famous that these summaries don’t substitute video descriptions that are written by creators.
The Google-owned platform had additionally began testing enhancements to the channel web page structure.
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