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Awesome site! This is infinitely more useful than any other pronunciation site I've seen. Two questions: I'm guessing the site uses the YouTube API to build a

Awesome site! This is infinitely more useful than any other pronunciation site I've seen. Two questions: I'm guessing the site uses the YouTube API to build a database from video captions, but which videos does it pull from? All of them or a subset? Querying the word "the" yields about 12 million results which seems low to me. Also, is there any way to prevent the site from modifying my YouTube watch history? I noticed after clicking around a few times and then going back to YouTube's home page that my recommendations had been updated based on the random videos I'd been fed. Clearly this isn't desirable behavior, but I don't know if there's any way around it. For the time being for other users, I recommend using an incognito or private window.

gdw2 7y ago
As a user, open the page in a private window.
sundarurfriend 7y ago
> my recommendations had been updated based on the random videos I'd been fed. Clearly this isn't desirable behavior Oh, it very much is desirable behaviour for me, I see it as an opportunity to get out of my filter bubble and remember YouTube's content variety. Especially given that the videos here are constrained to be from the UK, having captions and hence likely not "funny viral clips" or random vlogs.