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Google constantly does this unethical bundling of features with privacy switches. I remember when I used to use Android that turning off Location History meant you couldn’t save your home and work address on Google Maps.

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Wow what does that even have to do with anything it’s a pin at a set of coordinates. God they’ve become the embodiment of evil in just 20 years. Amazing 🙃

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This sounds great. Looks like I won’t be using video recommendations

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warranted unhook extension plug

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To be honest, I don’t understand the fuss. Of course, YouTube needs a history to make suggestions. How else? I thought that was a prerequisite anyway.

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You’re right, I didn’t think of that

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Anyone that’s not utilizing the algo should switch to a privacy focused frontend anyway.

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Like what, for example?

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I can’t personally recommend one because I haven’t tried any, but I’ve seen Piped and NewPipe mentioned.

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They keep deleting videos from my watch history my opinion is they seem to just want to keep throwing things you have already watched into your recommendations and a lot come back without the red bar.

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