Comment on YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google
kinsnik@lemmy.world 5 months agowouldn’t that have all the bad things about not having personalized recs (ie: seeing only popular clickbaity videos) while getting none of the benefits (ie: making harder for google to track you)
archomrade@midwest.social 5 months ago
It just doesn’t show you any recommendations at all - i think it depends on you also ‘deleting’ your account history in addition to turning off history tracking
it does still (in theory) enable them to track you for other outside services, possibly even for pre-roll or mid-roll advertisements, so it really depends on what your priority is
if watching on desktop with adblock on, you can get the best of both worlds - no recommendations and no ads (disclaimer: i have not yet been given the boot for using adblock, YMMV).
AFAIK - Watching on the youtube app does not allow you the benefit of adblocking, at least not in my experience.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That home page is perfect. No junk and a message explaining why there’s no junk and how to get it back if you want it.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Agreed.