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[HN] YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They could, you know, show you new videos of the channels that you’ve subscribed to. That’s not based on your watch history and also something that you have subscribed to because you like the content. But of course that wouldn’t generate the same amount of ad revenue, so now you can choose between letting YouTube decide for you, or nothing, in an attempt to let you enable your watch history again.