Turn off watch history and there’s no feed whatsoever, they started to refuse to show anything on the home page with watch history off since a couple years ago. Yes that includes even Shorts, you’re not allowed to doomscroll without watch history.

> Recommendations are off

> Your watch history is off, and we rely on watch history to tailor your feed. You can change your setting at any time, or try searching for videos instead. Learn more.

Same. This is the way. If you use Firefox, install the "unhook" extension to remove all the junk (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...)

UnTrap for iOS works practically the same.

> they started to refuse to show anything on the home page with watch history off since a couple years ago.

I remember when that happened. It was hilarious to me because the way they phrased it felt like they think of it as a punishment or incentive, but not having anything on the homepage is incredibly refreshing, exactly what I wanted. YouTube’s homepage (at least in my country) is just garbage videos no one should be watching.

I just didn't watch AI slop when it popped up and it doesn't pop up.

The only place I see slop on YT is ads.

I avoid watching any AI content, and I still periodically have music channels where every video has view counts in the low hundreds get recommended, with a description implying it's AI.

> This is what works for me.

Than you are the lucky one.

E.g.: Just for entertainment I recently searched for information on a new LLM model. The result was filled with AI garbage. I stumbled upon videos with AI generated content, presented by an AI generated voice and an AI generated human. And if it is not something like that, YouTube at least lies to me about the language of the video and tries to make me listen to an AI voice which is equally vile.

There are times where I constantly have to close videos after a couple of seconds. It is unbearable. At least they should mark these videos clearly. At best they should allow me to filter them out but of course they won't do that or else they couldn't make the experience on their platform even worse than it already is, what seems to be their real goal.

> That's a skill issue on your part.

No, it's not. I search for videos and i get AI garbage as a result. It shouldn't matter what i search for or if you think that it is dumb to search for it. It shouldn't return garbage in the first place unless I explicitly ask for it.

> Do not use YouTube to search for information. If you need to find information on a new LLM model, look for official documentation from the model's maker.

That is what I do but I like the entertainment factor of some YouTubers. I know that I do not get the best information from them but sometimes I'm entertained. That's why I'm using YouTube after all. Entertainment (and I'm not entertained by AI).

> This applies to everything.

So you are saying: In this glorious new AI world I need a search diploma just to evade the endless AI slop YouTube is filled with nowadays. And than there are topics that are taboo to search for at all. From what angle do I have to look at this to discover the good part?

> In this glorious new AI world I need a search diploma just to evade the endless AI slop YouTube is filled with nowadays. And than there are topics that are taboo to search for at all. From what angle do I have to look at this to discover the good part?

It has always been this way, even before AI. When people need to find information on anything, they would rather trust some social media influencer, than look at official docs.

I'm guessing you're just bad at identifying slop. It's EVERYWHERE on YouTube and I find it hard to believe it's recommending slop to everyone but you.

No, most people just watch garbage content. Why do you think all that garbage has millions of views? For many people including myself it's a red flag when a video has over 100k views.