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 7 months ago
FYI: when you disable YouTube history it’ll disable recommendations too
General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ikidd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Stop threatening me with a good time.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 7 months ago
Wow
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My issue with that is that then you see default youtube, which is also terrible.
starman@programming.dev 7 months ago
It looks like this:
YouTube with history off
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
oh, I’ve never used this official mobile app for youtube. I was talking about the desktop version.