YouTube forcing users to enable 'Watch history' to show video recommendations

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• Corvid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google constantly does this unethical bundling of features with privacy switches. I remember when I used to use Android that turning off Location History meant you couldn’t save your home and work address on Google Maps.

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  • ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow what does that even have to do with anything it’s a pin at a set of coordinates. God they’ve become the embodiment of evil in just 20 years. Amazing 🙃

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• Jay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be honest, I don’t understand the fuss. Of course, YouTube needs a history to make suggestions. How else? I thought that was a prerequisite anyway.

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  • Spruce1538@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It can do it based off of liked videos and videos you put in playlists. Thats what it seems to be doing for me.

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    • Jay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re right, I didn’t think of that

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like I won’t be using video recommendations

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  • thebutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • r0mnic@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      warranted unhook extension plug

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• Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyone that’s not utilizing the algo should such to a privacy focused frontend anyway.

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  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like what, for example?

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    • Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t personally recommend one because I haven’t tried any, but I’ve seen Piped and NewPipe mentioned.

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• Teknikal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They keep deleting videos from my watch history my opinion is they seem to just want to keep throwing things you have already watched into your recommendations and a lot come back without the red bar.

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