This is explained on this support answer

It’s a thing on Revanced YT even if spoofing an old version. Applies to the web version as well now

This seems to be due to some new EU law ?

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Doesn’t that make sense? How would they know what to recommend if they don’t store the history of what you watch?

Yes I know it’s bogus and they store it anyway - but just to humor the theory.

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Since YouTube’s beginning it has made recommendations without using a watch history. For personalized recommendations, it based them on subscriptions if watch history wasn’t on.

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Maybe they can just ask you about what you want to watch?

Speaking of which, have you watched the movie yet? Pretty good right? ☺️

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I feel like that defeats the purpose of automated recommendations, since you can still search for the videos (that you want to watch) and create playlists either way.

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Hah that would make sense indeed. Right against Google’s modus operandi though.

What movie? Barbie? (Guessing based on your username.) Not yet. I’m binging Star Trek SNW now.

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You’ve been on LW for this long and don’t know about me.😭

And I participated in both Star War Memes and Totally Not Robots after you made them…

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That is bloody lovely to not get distracted

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yup, I didn’t say it was bad, I just said they made this a thing :)

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Is this a con for people?

The recommendation algorithm has always been garbage to me.

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Is this bad? I really wouldn’t want YouTube to recommend me random garbage if they didn’t know what I already watched

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lol, I’ve always kept my watch history “paused” and YouTube always recommends… the videos I’ve already seen. Great. Thanks.

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Yt already recommends videos I’ve seen which is why I turned it off, now it doesn’t know what I’m interested in based on previous vids I’ve seen

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Oh, nice! I really appreciate those rare occasions where Google makes my experience better.

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