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YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy (www.usermag.co)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow your YouTube recommendations are very different from mine.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have watch history disabled

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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

Agreed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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