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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon user234683

Some kind of recommendations appearing

Open ByJumperX4 opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Hi, I've been using youtube-local everyday for quite some time, and i've seen recommendations that seems based on my subscriptions (videos from youtube channels i'm subscribed to - only in youtube-local, so locall - being recommended on videos that have nothing in common), does youtube-local have any feature like that ? If yes, is it possible to disable that ? Or should I instead worry about setting up some way to anonymize my network traffic ?

ByJumperX4 avatar Mar 03 '22 03:03 ByJumperX4

Do you have Tor routing enabled?

user234683 avatar Mar 03 '22 06:03 user234683

Nope, I'm going to enable it to see if those stay there

ByJumperX4 avatar Mar 04 '22 05:03 ByJumperX4

After a week of testing, it seems to be fine with tor routing enabled, that's still scary to see appearing without it

ByJumperX4 avatar Mar 11 '22 16:03 ByJumperX4

I've noticed in the past even before using youtube-local that YouTube will make recommendations based on IP address, and even seems to cross-correlate different IPs/browsers if it thinks it's the same person. So it's not too surprising to see it happen; definitely a useful test case to demonstrate the value of Tor routing, however.

user234683 avatar Mar 15 '22 17:03 user234683