Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2017 August 21

= August 21 =

YouTube home page
Does anyone know if there's a way to restore the watch again option to the YouTube home page? For those unfamiliar with it, this was part of the home page where YouTube would highlight videos you'd watched and/or liked previously, and recommend similar stuff you might like. I watch a lot of music on YouTube, so it was quite a useful tool. It was there yesterday, but seems to have disappeared overnight, and now everything that's being highlighted is stuff I don't particularly have any interest in. In fact, it's a real inconvenience because it was a quick way of getting back to some of my favourite tracks. And now it's all gone. I've Googled this today, and a lot of people are asking similar questions, but nobody seems to have any answers, so I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on the matter. It was suggested on some forums that people may have deleted the tool inadvertently, but I know for definite I didn't do this. I'm wondering if this is another case of Google doing something in the name of improvement that nobody wanted them to do. Can anyone help? This is Paul (talk) 22:28, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It's still there on mine but I do see a "X" on the right to remove it. Did you see this aand this? Both indicate the same solution. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 00:42, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I hadn't noticed that but I'll certainly follow the advice. Strangely it's come back today, and the Recommended for you section is also showing stuff I'd like now (even that wasn't showing me anything relevant). I didn't click the X so not sure why it vanished. Technical bugs perhaps? This is Paul (talk) 17:21, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * If you're logged in, YouTube records everything you watch in your account history. The "right" way to record videos for easily accessing them later is to make a playlist. (I believe you can make playlists private if you don't want anyone else looking at them.) You can also bookmark pages in your browser. --47.138.161.183 (talk) 08:30, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Note that you should have a Watch Later playlist by default, and AFAICT, it's not even possible to make the watch later play list public. (Well you can obviously republish it elsewhere or make a new playlist with the same content.) Nil Einne (talk) 11:35, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I haven't really utilised these up to now as I've tended to rely on the watch it again links to find stuff again, but think I'll have to start using them a bit more. This is Paul (talk) 17:20, 25 August 2017 (UTC)