• sasquatch7704@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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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      19 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

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        10 hours 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