Sort of. It pretends to disable recommendations, but things like shorts that show up in feeds a related videos are still skewed toward you. They just disable the ability to really scroll through them to try to encourage you to turn it back on. You can trust their profile on you is still kept up-to-date ;)
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starman@programming.dev 2 years ago
FYI: when you disable YouTube history it’ll disable recommendations too
General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 2 years ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Stop threatening me with a good time.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 2 years ago
Wow
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 years ago
My issue with that is that then you see default youtube, which is also terrible.
starman@programming.dev 2 years ago
It looks like this:
YouTube with history off
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 years ago
oh, I’ve never used this official mobile app for youtube. I was talking about the desktop version.