Several YouTube users report that the platform is forcing them to enable the 'Watch history' option to show video recommendations.
  • Corvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      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 🙃

  • Jay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

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

  • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.