Adjustments to YouTube's new features you should know

Recently, YouTube announced a number of changes that allow users to better control the videos that appear on YouTube Homepage and in the Up Next Suggestion section.

Video browsing is designed to make it easier to browse related topics and videos from both YouTube Homepage and the Up Next suggestion video section .

YouTube now offers personalized next video recommendations based on the videos you are watching, videos appearing on the channels you are watching or things that YouTube thinks you are interested in.

YouTube representative said that this feature was first deployed in the YouTube Android app with users who have logged in English language, next will be available on iOS, desktop and other languages.

If YouTube's suggestions are not appropriate - often they don't fall into this situation - users can explicitly control the stop offering videos from a particular channel. This feature will be available in three-dot menus on Homepage or Up Next.

After you click on 'Don't recommended channel', videos from that channel will no longer appear. However, you can still see the video in some cases such as when you subscribe on the channel containing the video, perform the search for those videos or visit the Channel page directly, or in other words, they are not completely offline to you.

The videos also appear on the Trending tab at times. This feature is available on the YouTube for Android app and begins to be available on iOS since today and will be available soon on the desktop application.

Most notably, YouTube allows users to see the operation of the operation algorithm behind it. Previously, people didn't understand why a video was offered to them. The new feature provided by YouTube will show why a video appears in the recommended list.

Explaining this reason, YouTube said, often, they recommend videos from channels you've never seen before based on things that other users have the same interests as you used to and Watch in the past, with the goal of offering relatively relevant videos on your Homepage, helping you quickly find videos from new channels you may like.

Asserting 'those who like this video may also like other videos' , is a starting point for the proposed algorithm, however, YouTube's algorithm is now more complicated than that.

These changes were made at the time YouTube was under pressure from government policy makers for managing the YouTube platform. In addition to privacy and information security issues, they were criticized for the issue of containing inappropriate content for children and a lack of transparency in the algorithms used to determine which videos to export. Show for users of their platform.