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SmartTube Forces YouTube History to turn on.

Open nsmichael82 opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

I have my YouTube History turned off - I don't want YouTube collecting a history of what I watch. Yet, when I watch a video on SmartTube (running on an nvidia Shield), my YouTube history gets forced to turn on. I have seen this behavior in both the Stable and Beta releases.

nsmichael82 avatar Feb 09 '23 13:02 nsmichael82

I confirm the issue - happened to me couple of times. Running on MiBox 4K.

EdinUser avatar Feb 09 '23 17:02 EdinUser

Same issue

steve51184 avatar Feb 13 '23 19:02 steve51184

The opposite pattern also occurs. We always want to keep history, but this app turns off the history setting for your Google account.

yamachang68 avatar Feb 16 '23 00:02 yamachang68

This is still happening. History setting is off on YouTube but no matter what the History setting (Auto/Off) SmartTube will continue to add entries to the History and often change the History Setting. Play Incognito does seem to work and not add entries to the History so maybe just add an "Always Play Incognito" setting.

KGolomb avatar Feb 05 '24 10:02 KGolomb