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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:09:22 -0700
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[GOOD] Google reverts TV YouTube app to original search history behavior
On 21 July I noted that the TV app for YouTube (e.g. Android TV,
Chromecast with Google TV) had become much harder to use since
user-specific search history was no longer being shown, replaced with
a list of (as far as I'm concerned) utterly useless "hot, trending"
topics. This meant that users had to manually reenter their common
searches with every use. Extremely bad user experience. I made my
concerns about this change known to Google. I'm sure I wasn't the only
one.
I'm pleased to report that as of this morning, the original behavior
has returned to the TV app, with user search history now appearing as
it did before. Since this was not the case last night, and the app
version is now dated 24 July, this clearly is an update.
Whether the obnoxious behavior was a bug or an intended "feature",
thanks Google for reverting to the original behavior in this new
version of the app.
L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com (https://www.vortex.com/lauren)
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