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Acklavidian ,

They are tracking you even in incognito with a VPN and even across services. People have been using these types of tools for a very long time and porn sites have been tracking people all the while. Basically your devices have enough unique attributes accessible through JavaScript API like make model, screen resolution, bluetooth radio capabilities like ble, connection speed, etc. Basically brute force every data point available in the API and use the results to build a profile to recognize you. Tools like modernizr.com while not exactly intended for this still make it easier.

MrPoopbutt ,

How is one supposed to prevent an API from doing this?

Acklavidian ,

Air gap yourself or you can disable JavaScript. But who does that haha. Albeit many browsers allow you to disable JavaScript these days, it’s not a great experience. I will say that it’s hard to monetize these types of profiles because they are somewhat ephemeral and not always accurate. But they are good enough to use to increase engagement on a admin dashboard so that’s what happens. Also there is some considerations to be made in terms of how similar people could potentially buy similar devices and use them in similar ways producing similar profiles. Decisions are made by analysing engagement metrics without any awareness of the behavior that drives them. I think this is what might have led to what Google is pushing as the new model for tracking users instead of cookies. …m.wikipedia.org/…/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts

Jhogenbaum ,

Hahaha. Whoa! So different. Mine is All stand up comedians and military training things and toolmakers DIY stuff.

Professorozone ,

Mine’s the same. For some strange reason, full of hot chicks. I also don’t watch shorts. Maybe they know I’m male and figure that will draw me in.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

All magnets and “chefs” over here

usualsuspect191 ,

Lol that algorithm has you in that demo for a reason I’m sure. Not sure I would’ve asked this publicly.

Also, who’s is a contraction of “who is” or “who has”. You want the possessive “whose”

Bell OP ,

Ty for the grammar lesson, I corrected it

Kusimulkku ,

Not sure I would’ve asked this publicly.

The horror of liking good looking women

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Not sure I would’ve asked this publicly.

At this point I think everyone knows that everyone else does the same thing.

Maggoty ,

YouTube = Alphabet = Google Search

They know.

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

YouTube = Alphabet = Google Search

That, or his ISP.

inclementimmigrant ,

youtu.be/VUHFXnOn7mI?si=kXzjY8QIQcOw1ZlV

wildcardology ,

My shorts is mostly what I watch on long form and vice versa

MilitantAtheist ,

Most of them are promoting their OF

trolling5665 ,

Yes u horny and they know, mine is all nerd shit like the other guy said

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

The algorithm makes sense to me, in that on my main PC I pretty much exclusively watch nerd shit on youtube. Tech stuff, 3D printing, machinery, motorcycles, that sort of thing. Youtube therefore probably assumes I am male, so in my Shorts feed seems to be comprised of about 90% boobies, and 10% clips about guns.

But then the algorithm doesn’t make sense to me, because on my living room PC we pretty much exclusively watch cat videos, bird videos, and videos-for-cats (the ones with all birds and squirrels and stuff), How Ridiculous, and Gavin Free. The Shorts feed there is also roughly 90% boobies, but in fairness the remaining 10% appears to be cats.

(Neither instance is logged in to a Google account or anything.)

Classy ,

Instagram is way more aggressive. I can’t search for anyone on there without being blasted with highly questionable content and softcore

Aux ,

Search for cats for a week or so and you’ll only see cats.

Classy ,

Can’t decide if it’s worth the effort to search for cats or just abandon ig

Aux ,

Cats are always worth it!

specterspectre ,

The funny part is that sometimes I play this little game to see how many videos it takes to fully pornify my home page and it doesn’t work if you want it to be like that.

starman ,
@starman@programming.dev avatar

FYI: when you disable YouTube history it’ll disable recommendations too

Pulptastic ,

Wow

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Stop threatening me with a good time.

Duamerthrax ,

My issue with that is that then you see default youtube, which is also terrible.

starman ,
@starman@programming.dev avatar

It looks like this:

YouTube with history off

Duamerthrax ,

oh, I’ve never used this official mobile app for youtube. I was talking about the desktop version.

edit: They must have changed something. Previously, no login desktop youtube just had the most bottom of the barrel clickbait shit that appealed the ipad kids.

General_Shenanigans ,

Sort of. It pretends to disable recommendations, but things like shorts that show up in feeds a related videos are still skewed toward you. They just disable the ability to really scroll through them to try to encourage you to turn it back on. You can trust their profile on you is still kept up-to-date ;)

Stern ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1963e4a5-37c7-4c90-8610-01a66c6dc92c.png

Works fairly well for me when I’m on the shorts doomscrolling. Your mileage could vary of course.

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