What if s.youtube.com is blocked ?
from Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to privacy@lemmy.ml on 31 Jul 07:23
https://lemmy.ca/post/68655424

I know, after blocking this subdomain youtube watch history won’t be tracked (saved) even if user is turned on it in data and privacy section of google account setting.

So, doesn’t save watch history also mean youtube doesn’t count views of users who block this subdomain ?

#privacy

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sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works on 31 Jul 10:03 next collapse

Why not just turn off watch history?

Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca on 31 Jul 10:36 next collapse

But that’s not my question. 😐

rollin@piefed.social on 31 Jul 14:32 collapse

No one can answer your question unless they know the internals of how youtube works. It’s quite possible for the view to be counted by some other means completely separate to a user’s watch history.

flameleaf@lemmy.ml on 01 Aug 20:00 next collapse

I watch without an account and they’re definitely tracking my watch history regardless of that

sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works on 01 Aug 22:55 collapse

Right, I don’t think you can turn off tracking without account although the solution in this case is as simple as watching in a private window in firefox (chrome’s icognito is not reliable)

rumba@lemmy.zip on 02 Aug 01:13 collapse

You can block this at the router. No watch history for anyone.

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world on 01 Aug 23:01 next collapse

Does it stop tracking? No one knows.

But if you can block it and everything still works, then it can’t be anything good. So block it.

Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 01 Aug 23:12 collapse

You could determine this pretty easily by uploading an unlisted video and then checking on an unrelated device that is blocking the domain.