Oh no! All those pages i block by turning my youtube history off!
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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When you're logged out the main page is blank. It's glorious. Thanks EU!
I do enjoy this but I didn't realize I had the EU to thank!
After you watched a first video though it seems to have no problem remembering what your browser fingerprint has watched before.
Lol. I only ever go to my subscriptions page.
Get rid of Shorts.
It’s too hot for that and I don’t think Google should control what people wear.
I keep hiding shorts but it keeps coming back like herpes
I do the range to those fucking YouTube game things. Stupid things
Same. I actually truly hate seeing the games pop up, so ugly and generic looking
Revanced if you're on Android
Shorts are annoying, but now they started cluttering the subscription page with community posts.
It's bad, but especially when you browse in landscape Mode on a phone. They get blown up so big you have to scroll like 3 pages for one post, and there's a lot of them.
And they will stay on your page forever and wont go away. No option to click them away at all.
They might, once it becomes too flooded with AI slop.
Hell yeah! It's way too hot even for those.
I've installed user scripts to replace the player with the normal one and used unlock to hide the feed in my subscriptions page. Did the same with revanced on my phone.
They're just designed to be addictive, I wasn't getting anything out of them.
But Algospeak
Use browser plug-ins and revanced.
The trending page stopped being worth looking at once it shifted away from actual trending content. That content was replaced with ad friendly corporate videos like Kimmel and family vloggers you've never heard of.
Could that be the first actual improvement in years?
I'm sure they're gonna replace it with something even more asinine but my god, the trending page was always just a cesspool of the absolute worst content on YouTube (with a few exceptions every now and then).
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they doing that to stop all the scrapers like newpipe from "working".
shit is hilarious.
fuck you Google.
How's that gonna break NewPipe and the likes? Surely they don't rely solely on the Trending page to get videos and such. I can see unpopular videos as well.
Sure, that could break their Trending pages. But they can then adapt by adopting the different Trending categories, innit? Make it a drop-down on the Trending page to select a category and avoid cluttering other parts of the interface with all the options
it won't, but it's clearly a deterrent. a pathetic one at that.
I use https://unhook.app/ and there's no trending page
unhook is amazing, it blocked unrelated ragebait and tripophobic content randomly popping up on my searches
Oh, also pair it with https://dearrow.ajay.app/ to crowdsource de-ragebaiting titles/thumbnails (from the maker of Sponsorblock)
Meanwhile report every video that has a click-baity title or thumbnail
Great, trending videos are generally completely trash
Knowing Youtube they will start drizzling them into your search results instead or something equally terrible.
Occasionally a video I like will get to trending and I'll question my taste in media.
True. I know this person and they speak for every single person that uses YouTube.
I spend hours on YouTube every single day and I have no clue what a "trending page" is.
I'm not sure how you can be so invested in YouTube and not at least be aware of trending. Have I ever looked at it? Not intentionally. Am I aware of it? Yeah.
When I open YouTube it gives me an edless feed of recommendations tailored to me. I don't care what other people are watching. If there's a tab with the title "trending" I've probably just never clicked it. I'm not even tempted to go see.
- Always check the Subscriptions page first
- Check Watch Later list, after that
- scroll the Home page, after that
Have never seen a link to a "Trending" page or a "Trending Now" list in any of those spots.
I have YouTube bookmarked to go directly to subscriptions and I have revanced configured to open directly to subscriptions. I've still seen trending as a tab in the sidebar on the website, and accidentally tapped on it back before vanced existed.
All of that said, I did just check and it's way more difficult to find now. It's near the bottom of the sidebar in browser, and iirc it used to have its own frustratingly dedicated tab in the mobile app, which it no longer does.
I worked at YouTube and use it constantly. I knew about it. But I just never used it. Because it was always garbage.
don't they just wanna turn that into the "everything" page? I get the feeling that Youtube and sites like it would rather us watch what they want rather than what we want.
Ahh yes, the brainrot feed.
I've never used that feature....
Yeah, cover your shame.
Logged out YouTube was covered up a few years ago.
Good. Can my Watch Later list please be the most important item I see when I go there?
Does this mean I will have to scroll even more if I want to go to a specific channel I am subscribed to? All i want on the left is History and the list of channels I am subscribed to.
Just use RSS to follow specific channels.
Freetube does this really well
The trending page is separate from subscriptions.