• rem26_art
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      the absolute blessing of never seeing Mr. Beast’s face whenever I am signed in.

    • edric
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      I like how they actually removed suggestions on the home page on the first time you visit logged out. I never click on anything on the home page suggestions and most of the stuff there is garbage, so it’s actually refreshing just to see a blank home page.

    • Transporter Room 3
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      It’s still garbage, but you’re 100% correct about it being 1000x worse logged out, at least it’s like that for me.

      I started getting a shitload of recommended videos based off an app I played for 5 minutes and deleted.

      I never looked it up on youtube or google, and I didn’t even search for it in the play store, I just saw it listed as similar to a different game that I did look up.

      And after a week of constantly telling them to stop recommending me these videos because I don’t like them, I’m still seeing them.

      Again, played the app for a few minutes and deleted, have now spent more time telling youtube to stop showing it to me than I spent playing.

      • Franklin
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        Google does a fair amount of data gathering even if you don’t log in. I think it does it through cookies, fingerprinting or browser inspection

        If I use a session long enough it will start to change to my actual taste

      • @Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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        224 days ago

        If your tastes are anything except the average population’s, you will have little to no interest in the homepage suggestions.

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            There must be separate cookies for when you’re logged out or something, because as someone who is always logged in, logging out completely changes the suggestions.