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Never thought of that, will that really work? I might have a spare router lying around to test it. Thanks!
It's possible my viewing habits overlap with say 68% of others. But I've seen recommendations that match what I would assume to be my more niche interests. As for not closing all private browsing tabs, I've made that mistake before, but I still see the same pattern of recommendations when using single session browsers or separate devices.

Thanks again for the follow-up.

Yeah I'm unsure what information they use or have access to in order to form recommendations. But I'm almost certain it's not limited to just IP addresses.
Thank you both. I typically log onto a separate "guest" Wi-Fi network that I enable through my router. Though maybe that's not exactly the same?

I'll need to double check the settings to be sure about the network isolation.

But as mentioned that still doesn't address the public IP concerns.

I don't distrust them so much and I think an administrator would have better things to do. That said, I'd prefer not giving them the opportunity and if it's at all practical "better safe than sorry" as they say.

Thanks for the suggestion.

That hasn't been my experience, when opening a private window the default feed I see on YouTube mostly matches what I would see if logged in.

Ask HN: Do you connect your work computer directly to your home network?

I work remotely from home on a company provided laptop.This may be excessively paranoid, but are there any privacy or security concerns with connecting it directly to my home network?For example, isn't there a risk that the company could be monitoring the traffic on my local network?Also I regularly do work through an employer managed Google Workspace account that's logged in on the...

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Thanks everyone for the suggestions and responses.

Ask HN: How do you preserve individual browsing privacy in a household?

I'm receiving targeted ads and suggested content on my individual device related to searches that other family members recently made on their respective devices.A typical household connects to a single router when accessing the Web. To the external world they will all share the same public IP address.If I understand correctly, individuals are often tracked by their IP address, besides other...

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Re:How did Europe become the richest part of the world? on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:24AM (#30742845)
Guns, Germs and Steel?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

Which tries to answer the question:

> Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

Re:Ask HN: Post Explaining Cameras and Apertures on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:21PM (#26372831)
That is it! Thanks so much.

I had tried searching first but this didn’t turn up in the search results.

Ask HN: Post Explaining Cameras and Apertures

I’m trying to find a post on HN from 2020 that explained aperture and cameras. The linked article was informative and interactive.That same individual had posts explaining other interesting topics as well.If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thx.

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Will these sessions be recorded? For the cases where someone is unable to attend or wants to refer back to a prior discussion?
Re:Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:23AM (#25157544)
Roadeo by Bernhard Handler is one of my favourite flash games, hope the author (or anyone) takes the time to archive it.

https://igf.com/roadeo

https://youtu.be/mVHJz9v26yA

Re:Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018) on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:15AM (#24338502)
@duffpkg will you be updating or releasing a second edition of Hacking Healthcare anytime soon?