• WhoRoger@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t that make sense? How would they know what to recommend if they don’t store the history of what you watch?

    Yes I know it’s bogus and they store it anyway - but just to humor the theory.

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      1 year ago

      Since YouTube’s beginning it has made recommendations without using a watch history. For personalized recommendations, it based them on subscriptions if watch history wasn’t on.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe they can just ask you about what you want to watch?

      Speaking of which, have you watched the movie yet? Pretty good right? ☺️

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        I feel like that defeats the purpose of automated recommendations, since you can still search for the videos (that you want to watch) and create playlists either way.

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        1 year ago

        Hah that would make sense indeed. Right against Google’s modus operandi though.

        What movie? Barbie? (Guessing based on your username.) Not yet. I’m binging Star Trek SNW now.

        • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          You’ve been on LW for this long and don’t know about me.😭

          And I participated in both Star War Memes and Totally Not Robots after you made them…

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            1 year ago

            I know about you, I just don’t remember if we’ve talked about some movie. My memory isn’t what it used to be.