The site has disabled homepage recommendations for users with their watch history paused.

Why Does YouTube Save Watch History? YouTube is essentially a content discovery platform. Therefore, it depends on algorithms to curate and recommend content to its customers (i.e., viewers). YouTube ...

YouTube is disabling all of its recommendation tools if you don’t have watch history turned on — including its home feed. YouTube is disabling all of its recommendation tools if you don’t have watch ...

Google promises that if you turn off your watch history, your YouTube page will become simpler and cleaner. Google promises that if you turn off your watch history, your YouTube page will become ...