u/616ThatGuy

Holy hell! I cleared my watch history and my recommendations are so much better.

A little backstory. I’ve had YouTube Premium since it launched in Canada in 2018. I made a new account when I subscribed, and I’d never cleared my watch history.

Lately, YouTube got stuck in a loop where autoplay kept playing one of the same 10 videos every time something ended. It was driving me nuts, since I usually have it playing in the background while I’m doing other things. So I cleared my watch history just to fix that, but it had an unexpected side effect. My recommendations are way better now.

After 8 years, my interests have changed a lot, but my recommendations never really caught up. Half of them were random videos I’d never watch. Now, probably 90% of what I see looks at least somewhat interesting.

The first couple of days kind of sucked. It was mostly videos I’d already watched from my subs and some random stuff. But once I watched a few channels I actually like, YouTube started recommending similar creators. I didn’t realize how much my algorithm would improve from wiping my watch history.

So yeah, if you haven’t cleared yours in years, or ever, I’d recommend giving it a try. The first couple of days are a little rough, but it gets much better pretty quickly. Just try to stick to videos you actually want to watch so it can relearn your interests faster.

Anyone else just running into issue after issue tonight and yesterday? Barely been able to get anything done because of so many issues.

- Prompts getting auto canceled right after hitting enter
- Remixes gettinging built with script errors that can’t be found or diagnosed
- Projects not loading at all
- At one point right after loading in it just deleted all my files in my project (luckily I was able to revert)
- Performance so slow simple tasks like an audit either take 10-15 minutes or just get stuck in a loop
- Simple tasks taking 10 minutes to change one thing

I literally got nothing done yesterday because it was so bad. So I figured I’d wait til tonight and maybe it would get better. But I’m just running into issue after issue and as far as I can tell it’s nothing in my project causing them. I’m simplifying prompts to give it less to think about and it’s still struggling. I had to just give up for the night. I’m burnt out just trying to get it to work properly.

So I have two weird issues I’ve tried everything to fix and I can’t seem to get them working.

- My auto caps doesn’t work. Hasn’t worked since the day I got my MacBook Air. Settings are on, I’ve tried booting into safe mode, creating a new user, etc. it doesn’t work anywhere no matter what I try.

- My storage won’t stop calculating the system data, so it never settles on what’s being used and what free. It just sits there spinning and loading. Again, tried everything I can. Googled, asked GPT, restarted, rebooted, everything. Nothing works. This one just started 2 days ago.

Anyone else ran into these issues and know a fix? One issue was annoying, 2 is now really pissing me off.