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Re:Tell HN: YouTube history setting privacy implications by sgbeal on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:16AM (#47637358)
> One has to manually ... delete Your Likes and Dislikes on YouTube and

Is that really surprising? Does it even make sense to time-limit likes/dislikes?

Similarly for comments: in what use cases (disregarding malicious ones) does it make sense to automatically delete them after a timeout?

Consider what HN would look like if peoples' votes and comments disappeared every 3 months.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube history setting privacy implications by fiftyacorn on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:03AM (#47658147)
Unless likes are anonymised then delete should be delete
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