I deleted my Youtube watch history several days ago, and have done so again and again and again... since then!

I don't care about recording my data, I am behind literally seven thousand shoe0nheads, but I always used an spare account to watch YT with and I really cared about it and I 'furnished' it and --- get this, since I understand ML shit a bit, I read state-of-art papers on recommender systems not to design my own recommender system, but to train Youtube's recommender system to my whim. And then I realized I'm being extremely special-needs and I nuked it all. And I turn it off-and-on as I go. Seriously have you ever met someone who's obsessed with YT's recommender system as a watcher? Damn!

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jeena@piefed.jeena.net · 19 pts · 2y

I did this with my google maps history until I realized that google just marks it as deleted so I am the only one not having access to this data, but google still collects and uses it, it just doesn't show it to me.

HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

If you're worried about google data collection, telling google to delete your data does next to nothing

Use freetube on pc and newpipe on android for a more privacy-focused alternative

Similarly, please proofread what you type. I almost had a stroke reading this

Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

No kidding. I had to call on brain cells I didn't even know I had.

bomibantai@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Does new pipe still work? I just checked and it's just erroring out regardless of what video I try to see

HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Are you using the latest version? Seems to be working fine for me

PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y

I can't tell if youtubes algorithm is shit or it can't work because I clear my history all the time.