Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google

• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  show recommended videos based on the current one.

  They still do in my recent experience.

  It’s just not based on any longer viewing history than the current session.

  The homepage rhat starts the viewing session will generally be just what’s popular with the general audience in the approximate location they can geolocate from your IP address. If you are logged out and try a few different locations on a VPN, you’ll get different homepages to start a new (logged out) session from.

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  • archomrade@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep.

    Though there is still a reason to be upset IMHO, because I’ve had history turned off for several years now, but until recently I always had a home page with ‘recommended’ videos regardless, which to me indicates that they were not honoring my request before the recent data regulations went into effect in the EU, or were otherwise using data from other services or browsing history to base recommendations on.

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