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bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I noticed when I went to a hotel that the recommended videos for a logged out user were drastically different than my own. For example, I always found it a bit odd that Mr Beast is the #1 person on YouTube, yet I almost never get recommended his videos, but they were all over the TV in the hotel.

I decided to try a hard reset. I deleted my entire watch history, start at 0 again. I also deleted all but maybe 5 of my subscriptions. Almost nothing changed.

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Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think your home IP affects recommendations.

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- bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m hopefully wrong because it might have GDPR implications, but on the other hand they’re probably using an LLm and once theyre on the back of that tiger they cnt let go of the tail.
    
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djmarcone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah I didn’t even know who he was until a few months ago. Yet he is the top channel.

YouTube knows w

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