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Demand ad companies take security seriously first and maybe we'll talk. (tesseract.dubvee.org)
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[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Clear your history on YouTube. Personally, I've had mine paused for a decade and just subscribe to stuff I like and that is fine.

Definitely never seen anything like that.

[โ€“] th3raid0r@tucson.social 2 points 6 months ago

I normally would, but my wife has the same problem and she's done that 3 times in the last 6 months. In fact, her problem became MUCH worse because the "clean slate" was far more impressionable. She'd search up beauty routines, only to find that Youtube thinks she now wants to see "popping" videos, even though she's now searching for dinner recipes.

So yeah, I saw her experience and decided "no thanks".

To be fair, MOST of YouTube I watched can be found on Nebula and Floatplane, both of which will likely not have this issue since it's not a user-content platform. Not to mention, the creators likely make more from those platforms anyways.

YouTube is basically unavoidable though, so now I just view everything through a piped instance if I absolutely need something that can only be found there.