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I believe there's a technical term for this in the EU: illegal. If it comes out that they didn't delete data that was requested to be deleted beyond reasonable
by janosdebugs 3y ago
I believe there's a technical term for this in the EU: illegal. If it comes out that they didn't delete data that was requested to be deleted beyond reasonable technical measures and they actually used it, that's most certainly going to rain fines. Given the increasing appetite in the EU for handing out these fines, I'm not sure YouTube is taking it so lightly.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoWell hmm. I may be totally wrong on those points. None of the articles I surveyed support my claims. They may be poor-quality articles, I don't know. None of them explicitly say that YT silently keeps track even with history off. So these controls may be really doing what they say on the tin. It's strange though: I do recall somewhere in the Googleplex, something telling me that turning off history wouldn't disable collection. Was it in Maps? Some other product? I don't know, but now I feel weird about it. I'm sorry if I caused confusion about these points. Please accept my retraction and apologies.
- janosdebugs 3y agoNo worries, on a technical level I'm sure they have the data somewhere, but that's most likely in a backup or a replication mechanism. However, if it somewere someone would know about and they would use it, it would have come out. The recommendations for me were ok so far, but clearly not based on my watch history. It's mildly annoying that they are gone now.