I think you're confused with what the other person meant. Without tracking the home page would be made up of just the most viewed videos. Toddler videos and vlogs. Or just the most recent Videos which would likely be even worse.
The confusion is on the other end, it's a made up problem, you don't need any tracking to solve this, and people are not that dumb to be unable to come up with sorting algorithms besides "most globally viewed" and "most recent"
Besides, you ignore a use case where no recommendation is even needed, like only having a single video you opened paying without all the junk. No algorithm is also an option
Like what? They don't know anything about what you like so they are going to have to go with the global average.
So your suggestion is to just turn off recommendations? You can hide them from view using the chrome extension unhook if you want to see what that experience is like. I do it myself when I'm trying to avoid distractions but when I'm actively looking for them i turn it off.
"don't know anything" is false, there are ways to get information by... asking like you already have in many media services
And if you can't even imagine something other than the dumb "global toddler average" can exist, then it's just very sad
And I know what the non suggest experience is like, it's great, also removing the comments is nice, but then there is plenty of other rec nonsense that's harder to disable (especially on a phone). So yes, that's ONE OF the options I suggest, though you haven't said what's wrong with it, does it not count as an alternative to toddler average?
