Stop!!! You cant watch content unless you hand over your identification papers sir.
While you are here may i interest you in our other entrances which are further away from where you actually wanted to go and will also stop you from entering without providing identification.
You’re right, those videos look like total garbage
Was speaking the login requirement but the ads for other videos is insult to injury
Even if you’re logged out, YouTube still recommends videos based on your viewing habits.
Ok
Not an advid watcher so they are just going off what ever link I happen to click any given day.
That’s still a lot.
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They know what videos you click (obviously)
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They know when you click them
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They know how much you watch each of the videos
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They know how many times you click on the videos
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Depending on the platform/client/browser/search engine implementation, they see what videos are shown to you before you click on them (thumbnail gets fetched, autoplay, pre-loading, etc.)
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If someone sent you the link, they most likely know who’s sent you the link (through a reference ID)
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The person who’s sent you this is probably logged in, so they know them by name, DoB, interests, etc. From here on out they can guess your own membership of certain statistical cohortsa bit better then through yourown clickinglinks alone.
And a host of other things - where you’re located (IP address), what type of connection you’re on (IP address + bandwidth), what type of device, what browser/client, etc.
This is just of the top of my head.
Don’t mean to scare anyone with this, but it is inherently spooky at the very least.
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