• sasquatch7704@lemmy.world
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      20 hours 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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        7 hours 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

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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      1 day ago

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