Exactly! OP should welcome this change if anything. It would seem that so far Google has kept a watch history no matter if enabled (visible) or not to feed it’s recommendation algorithm. Now you have the choice to disable it.
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dalingrin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If Google doesn’t keep your watch history then how it can make recommendations? It seems like people who don’t want Google to keep the watch history are probably also people who don’t want Google to feed them videos algorithmically.
pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 10 months ago
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This is exactly the reason why I turned off my history. I go to my subscriptions panel anyway.
niisyth@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Pretty sure they could rig something up from subscriptions. I dunno, maybe a chronological subscription feed??
But why would they when they could strongarm you into enabling watch history.
serpineslair@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Precisely.
rush@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Contextually, from trends and from other users which watched the video you’re watching.
Oh, and they keep this data anyways
emstuff@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
i am confused what OP wants to happen, i would probably say this is a change for the better that i would not mind for the sake of privacy?
just like subscribe to some ppl or something like,
serpineslair@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It already did this, I’m guessing based on subscriptions or something, but as others have mentioned they probably have my history anyway. It’s honestly less about the fact that I can’t get recommendations and more about the fact that they are trying to force people to turn on history. But tbh even without this I am happy to have found a federated version similar to Lemmy.
handhookcardoor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also: Do you think doing this really keeps Google from keeping track of what you watched? I bet they keep all that history already.
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes. They are legally bound to it, thanks to EU laws, and if they still do it they could get into a world of shit. So they are really careful about what they are doing with that data. And that’s a small W in my back. Otherwise I could get money in court. And I do like money too.