| Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 6:17 PM | Dont you think this is horrible? Every time I go to youtube it essentially shows all my other searches. I want privacy!!!! |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | Marc726 | 1/17/11 6:30 PM | No one else can see your recommended videos but you. They're based off of your viewing history which also no one else can see but you. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | markimatang | 1/17/11 6:31 PM | Go to your home page. Click “Add / Remove Modules". Un-check “Recommended for You”. Click “Save Changes”. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 7:12 PM | UH I tried to do the ADD/Remove Modules and unchecked it. Yes it does remove my recommended videos BUT thats only when i am signed in. IF i don't sign in it STILL SHOWS my recommended videos. So when my girlfriend uses my computer for youtube and do |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 7:28 PM | I fixed it. I have to delete my history in both my browser and youtube history. IF not my girlfriend will know about all my recent searches WITHOUT even needing to log into my account. This is backwards. My privacy is LESS PROTECTED when signed out. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | markimatang | 1/17/11 7:29 PM | Clear your cookies, then use a different browser to watch those ahem videos that you don't want her to see. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 7:34 PM | If you can still see your recommended videos, then you're not as signed out as you think you are. If you're not signed in, YouTube doesn't have the slightest clue who you are. You're some unknown user on some computer. They have no way of seeing your |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | Marc726 | 1/17/11 7:36 PM | @anmoose, exactly. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 7:36 PM | If your browser is saving your history, it's an issue between you and your browser. YouTube has no control over it. Go into the settings in your browser and set it to not save your browsing history. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 7:44 PM | Thanks guys. I think I am starting to get it. Well I just tried to set up my Safari browser to Private Browsing but that didnt work. The only thing that works is deleting my cookies. Even if i set Safari to private browser. NOPE. youtube still shows |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | markimatang | 1/17/11 8:02 PM | anmoose may have a point about clearing safari history. Even if it doesn't effect the recommended videos someone could go to your Safari history and see everything you watched even on sites other than YpuTube. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 8:03 PM | I set firefox to private browsing and still it doesnt help. Only deleting cookies does it. Thanks youtube for making my life more difficult and wasting a whole day of my time. All i want is a little more privacy and I have to fight all day long to fi |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 8:06 PM | <facepalm> |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 8:07 PM | I know about deleting history on my browser. Thanks for the heads up though. Someone should mention this to people at you tube. If not its gonna ruin alot of relationships just like facebook/myspace does when lovers see who their others talking to or |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 8:09 PM | My browser IS set not to track my history. when its set to private browsing it does not track my history. Is there something i am not getting |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | GibsonAndVega | 1/17/11 8:13 PM | @anmoose "If you're not signed in, YouTube doesn't have the slightest clue who you are...They have no way of seeing your history, OR of recommending anything." Not so. YouTube can still see your cookies from when you were signed in. And they can sti |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 8:21 PM | @G&V, this copy of Opera is set to clear cache when I shut it down, but it does NOT delete cookies until or unless *I* manually tell it to do so. When I start it up, not signed in, I get nothing *but* the generic YouTube home page. There are no recom |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | 29bluesky | 1/17/11 8:21 PM | Thankyou GibsonAndVega!!!!! You are exactly correct. However if I watched those videos with her she would just walk away crying and have issue of selfesteem. But its not just those "ahem" videos its everything. I cant be the only one annoyed by this. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | GibsonAndVega | 1/17/11 8:41 PM | @anmoose "Cookies do not save your viewing history..." They sure do. Go look at your YouTube cookies. You'll find one called watched_video_id_list_yourusername. It contains a list of IDs of recently viewed videos. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 9:00 PM | *ahem* What happens when you cold start your browser, NOT signed in, and go to http://youtube.com? |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 9:03 PM | And do note that the cookie you refer to references a username. Not signed in, it doesn't know your username. You don't have one. If I sign out of this account and sign into any one of my other accounts, my "recommended" for this account DO NOT appea |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | epontius | 1/17/11 9:12 PM | Sounds like you need relationship counseling. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | Marc726 | 1/17/11 9:23 PM | @anmoose, again, exactly. I haven't been saying anything because I've been agreeing with everything you've said here. And it's because what you've said is precisely how it is. |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | GibsonAndVega | 1/17/11 9:26 PM | @anmoose |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | GibsonAndVega | 1/17/11 9:28 PM | You mean me and Moosie? |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 9:33 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 9:35 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | GibsonAndVega | 1/17/11 9:49 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 9:53 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | Marc726 | 1/17/11 9:56 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 10:00 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | Marc726 | 1/17/11 10:11 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | GibsonAndVega | 1/17/11 10:11 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | epontius | 1/17/11 10:14 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | anmoose | 1/17/11 10:36 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | GibsonAndVega | 1/18/11 3:39 PM | |
| Re: Turn off the recommended videos?? its extremely annoying that everyone can see my previous searches | epontius | 1/18/11 4:11 PM |