YouTube's Custom Feeds Start With a Sentence, Not a Filter
Ars Technica notes that YouTube's homepage design comes under fire often, and at its Made on YouTube event the company previewed a way to shift some control to viewers. Custom Feeds will let users add new tabs to the YouTube interface filled with content of their choice. Creating one works less like ticking boxes in a filter list than like writing a prompt: you type a description and let YouTube populate the page. The feature is set to roll out soon in the US for web, mobile and TV users.
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The interesting move here is where the input comes from. You state a taste in words instead of letting watch history infer one, which is a different kind of instruction to the recommendation system.
A description is not a fence. You are still asking YouTube to populate the page, and the thing this replaces is the homepage feed that the same report says comes under fire often.