• @sasquatch7704@lemmy.world
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        03 days ago

        Funny think about that.

        I also had it disabled, started watching a longer(ish) video, closed the video and enabled history and somehow YouTube knew how much I already watched before history was on.

        So my guess is that history off is only for the user, YouTube knows anyway, it just pretends not to store it

        • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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          02 days ago

          The buffer only stores one video, for direct user experience purposes only, and is wiped upon playback of a subsequent video.

          Well that’s just my assumption based on the company’s data privacy reputation (lul I grinned typing that)


          Love how aggressive Alphabet’s Google’s YouTube is after watch history’s disabled.

          WATCH HISTORY OFF!! CLICK TO ENABLE (NO RECOMMENDATIONS B/C YOU DESERVE A BLANK PAGE) OTHERWISE, AGAIN !PLEASE! !!CLICK!!

          #darkpattern

          • @sasquatch7704@lemmy.world
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            02 days ago

            I think it store more if you gave history on. Anyway the recommended are still there at the end of the video or sidebar. But yeah shitty dark pattern

      • @SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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        03 days ago

        Well, that might be the cause. Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.

        • @hcbxzz@lemmy.world
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          03 days ago

          A good portion of the country is batshit insane, I’d be more surprised if I didn’t see that represented in the recs

        • Snot Flickerman
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          03 days ago

          Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.

          Agreed.