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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.

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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.

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