No more YouTube recommendations on Android if video history is turned off

TheRadiatorIsWarm@sopuli.xyz to Android@lemmy.world – 171 points –

This is explained on this support answer

It's a thing on Revanced YT even if spoofing an old version. Applies to the web version as well now

This seems to be due to some new EU law ?

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Is this bad? I really wouldn't want YouTube to recommend me random garbage if they didn't know what I already watched

lol, I've always kept my watch history "paused" and YouTube always recommends... the videos I've already seen. Great. Thanks.

Yt already recommends videos I've seen which is why I turned it off, now it doesn't know what I'm interested in based on previous vids I've seen