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If you pause your watch history in Youtube, it disables suggestions in your feed and nags you to turn it back on. This is definitely a dark pattern that tries t
by temporallobe 3y ago
If you pause your watch history in Youtube, it disables suggestions in your feed and nags you to turn it back on. This is definitely a dark pattern that tries to coerce users into giving up some privacy. It’s completely unnecessary and disappointing, especially for premium users like myself.
- alwayslikethis 3y agoThe fact that you are still paying despite this shows they can get away with this. Though for me, I guess it's a good thing. Without a feed I am much less inclined to continue on the site.
- svachalek 3y agoThere's still a subscription feed though, a chronologically sorted list of only stuff you asked for. It's a beautiful thing, a relic of a more civilized age.
- banannaise 3y agoI think one of the big lessons of the last few years/decades is that the wallet vote is ineffective at best, in large part because many companies are doing far more to entrench customer lock-in than provide customer value, and you can't really move to an alternative product if the alternatives are all doing the same thing.