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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by josephg on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @08:52PM (#30172500)
YouTube recently did the same with autoplay. I hate autoplay with a passion, and watching the setting suddenly turn itself on again made me incoherently angry.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by hydrogtehd on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:30PM (#30172853)
Auto play is the worst.

I also hate the turning on chimes

Not auto-muting when restarted/woken up

Blue led

Bright electronics.

It seems that everything is designed to scream at the user.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by reustle on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:34PM (#30173354)
Black marker really helps to tone down blue LEDs btw.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by tremon on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @06:22AM (#30176162)
Did that with the TV in my bedroom. Even the red stand-by led was impossibly bright. It turned out that the remote sensor was located behind the same glass :/
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by grishka on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:56PM (#30173499)
Storing user preferences reliably feels like one of the hardest problems in computer science. Especially if doing so would interfere with the metrics you're trying to grow so relentlessly.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by pndy on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:34AM (#30175181)
There are extensions around to control this behavior and you can switch to invidious or freetube in worst case
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by Lamad123 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:51PM (#30173033)
I had that last week.. I thought I turned on by mistake as they made too close to navigation bar and other buttons..
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