I told youtube to only recommend my videos. they agreed and are just working on the process of getting them up[DOUBLEPOST=1498523704,1498523504][/DOUBLEPOST]lol found this quote off of reddit, hope it helps you. there were a couple replies of others that said this helped them.
I have fixed my problem. For those interested, here's the steps that brought back my old Youtube homepage for me:
- The "recommended" area was apparently just moved to the BOTTOM of a very long list of stuggested content and channels from my subscriptions, I had to click the X to delete all these off my homepage one by one to remove them. "Recommended" was at the bottom of this list.
- "Recommended" is now at the top of the page, but it will be under "youtube mixes", instead of at the top. For me, going into my history and "pausing" the history and then "unpausing" it seemed to remove the youtube mixes from my homepage.