It’s less about privacy more about minimalism…
I don’t want too many accounts to manage… I just wanna watch a bunch of stuff and forget it
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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I understand the sentiment, but gotta say YouTube is one service that is much better when logged in. I have my history and personalization disabled everywhere except YouTube. If I open YouTube’s front page in an incognito tab, it’s wall-to-wall trash on the level of Jerry Springer. Meanwhile I’ve been getting recommendations to my precise taste for years. Lots of good music found in the recs.
I don’t even open random YouTube links from social media under my account, so as to not mess up the recommendations. Always using an incognito tab instead.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 22 hours ago
This was changed some time ago. This is YT front page when you’re logged out:
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Which is exactly what I want to be recommended by YT.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Hmmm, you’re right, it now tells me to “search to get started”. Guess the onslaught of total unmitigated crap as the default page for a region was rather embarrassing. That’s the downside of using the greatest common factor as the starting point.
Thankfully I have my own interests instead, and taught them to Youtube. Works like a charm.