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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by beart on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:14PM (#19002056)
It's possible your adblocker is preventing YouTube from tracking your watched video history. I know pi-hole does this by default unless you whitelist certain domains.
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by rasz on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:28PM (#19003201)
user agent hits Google random-string.googlevideo.com/videoplayback with referrer, ip, signature and several other parameters coding your individual user id, Google knows every single time who, why and when requested particular resource.
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by oh_sigh on Friday January 25, 2019 @08:24PM (#19004105)
Just because they have the data doesn't necessarily mean that they use it. They might rely on some javascript XHR to tell them when a video is really watched. Just guessing here.
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by mistermann on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:24PM (#19002140)
Happens to me on non-adblocked mobile all the time, it is infuriatingly dumb. Google seems to not be able to do user friendly UI's.

Don't get a started on discovery!

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