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This is great. Now I can see in a single place how YouTube mixes other people's history with mine. It seems I watched "Funny Dinosaurs in Poop Fight", "Poop Car

by jwr 7y ago

This is great. Now I can see in a single place how YouTube mixes other people's history with mine. It seems I watched "Funny Dinosaurs in Poop Fight", "Poop Cartoon 04: Fried Sh*t" and "Pirate Pete's Potty: Potty Training Video for Toddlers" yesterday. Fun. (I've been getting some other kid's watched videos in my history, and Google doesn't care about this kind of history mixing, my reports got me nowhere).

mankyd 7y ago
Is it possible you logged into a computer somewhere else? Maybe at a friend's house? That seems odd to me.
VikingCoder 7y ago
Have you verified this? https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity
- jwr 7y ago
  Of course. All the devices there are right in front of me and none of them accessed these videos. I also tried removing all devices and re-authorizing them again, just to make sure. Doesn't change a thing. These videos are not played on any of my devices.
  - VikingCoder 7y ago
    That sounds like you're doing everything right. Next up, we get to wonder if you have a virus on your machine which is playing videos for you in the background. If the videos play at a regular interval, you could try turning one machine off during that time, and see if the events disappear from the log.
    - jwr 7y ago
      My machines are: a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad, all running latest OS versions. I find this bizarre: by now I expect the next suggestions to be that I'm sleepwalking and watching these myself, rather than a more probable explanation that Google isn't doing something right (gasp!).
jwr 7y ago
Replying in bulk: yes, I am sure it isn't from my device, and yes, I jumped through all the hoops, including changing passwords, logging out all devices, clearing histories, etc etc. It is not my device. I am getting somebody else's history. I also reported it to Google, providing additional details, late last year I think. No change. And I have done everything I could, short of deleting the Google account. So all I can do now is tell others. The amusing thing is how whenever I mention it on HN, it gets immediately downvoted. There sure are some hard Google fans here.
- VikingCoder 7y ago
  When you reported to Google, are your reports public on a Google Groups or something? Is there a bug you can link us to?
okmokmz 7y ago
So it sounds like either someone is logged into your account, or one of your devices is infected
- jwr 7y ago
  Neither — please see my other replies in this thread. I think it's interesting that people seem to find it so hard to believe that Google's software might be buggy.
  - okmokmz 7y ago
    Personally, I think it's more likely that there is an issue on your end rather than a multi billion dollar company mistakenly thinking you have a secret love of poop videos. No way for me to confirm either way though (I didn't downvote BTW, happens to me all the time. People abuse it as a disagree button like on reddit, but it's even more toxic on this site as its only available to a subset of users)

by jwr 7y ago

mankyd 7y ago

Is it possible you logged into a computer somewhere else? Maybe at a friend's house? That seems odd to me.

VikingCoder 7y ago

Have you verified this? https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity

jwr 7y ago
Of course. All the devices there are right in front of me and none of them accessed these videos. I also tried removing all devices and re-authorizing them again, just to make sure. Doesn't change a thing. These videos are not played on any of my devices.
- VikingCoder 7y ago
  That sounds like you're doing everything right. Next up, we get to wonder if you have a virus on your machine which is playing videos for you in the background. If the videos play at a regular interval, you could try turning one machine off during that time, and see if the events disappear from the log.
  - jwr 7y ago
    My machines are: a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad, all running latest OS versions. I find this bizarre: by now I expect the next suggestions to be that I'm sleepwalking and watching these myself, rather than a more probable explanation that Google isn't doing something right (gasp!).

jwr 7y ago

Replying in bulk: yes, I am sure it isn't from my device, and yes, I jumped through all the hoops, including changing passwords, logging out all devices, clearing histories, etc etc. It is not my device. I am getting somebody else's history. I also reported it to Google, providing additional details, late last year I think. No change. And I have done everything I could, short of deleting the Google account. So all I can do now is tell others. The amusing thing is how whenever I mention it on HN, it gets immediately downvoted. There sure are some hard Google fans here.

VikingCoder 7y ago
When you reported to Google, are your reports public on a Google Groups or something? Is there a bug you can link us to?

okmokmz 7y ago

So it sounds like either someone is logged into your account, or one of your devices is infected

jwr 7y ago
Neither — please see my other replies in this thread. I think it's interesting that people seem to find it so hard to believe that Google's software might be buggy.
- okmokmz 7y ago
  Personally, I think it's more likely that there is an issue on your end rather than a multi billion dollar company mistakenly thinking you have a secret love of poop videos. No way for me to confirm either way though (I didn't downvote BTW, happens to me all the time. People abuse it as a disagree button like on reddit, but it's even more toxic on this site as its only available to a subset of users)