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user234683 / youtube-local

browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Some kind of recommendations appearing #123

Closed ByJumperX4 closed 7 months ago

ByJumperX4 commented 2 years ago

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 ?

user234683 commented 2 years ago

Do you have Tor routing enabled?

ByJumperX4 commented 2 years ago

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

ByJumperX4 commented 2 years ago

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

user234683 commented 2 years ago

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.