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I pay for Kagi and Nebula because these services actually give me a good experience for my money. The last time I tried YouTube Premium, I found out that the i

I pay for Kagi and Nebula because these services actually give me a good experience for my money. The last time I tried YouTube Premium, I found out that the iOS app will frequently loose your last viewed video in the background, because I turned off the playback history. I would turn it on, except it is the only way of stopping Google from using your views for, you guessed it, targeted advertising. This makes sense, because Premium users are more attractive advertising targets. The only way to be truly safe is with an adblocker.

jsnell 2y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. "I turned off view history, and now the app isn't keeping any history of the views for me" seems like an odd complaint. But the actual way to stop Google from using your view for ad targeting is just turn off personalized ads. Or - in the unlikely case you object only to use of YouTube history but not other data - there appears to be a separate control just for that: https://myadcenter.google.com/u/1/controls/ads-data/youtube-history https://myadcenter.google.com/u/1/controls/ads-data/youtube-... If you don't trust those settings, why would you trust the setting to turn off history?