[doliveira]

And then you can't use the incognito mode when you don't want to mess up your recommendations.

[rdlw]

YouTube has a setting to pause watch/search history. I'm sure they still track these things being the scenes, but I've found that removing videos from watch history is enough to keep similar things off my feed.

[doliveira]

Yeah, that's something I don't trust at all: that they don't feed it into every single machine learning model available to them.

The ad industry as a whole is absolutely untrustworthy. Even you pay you can't trust not to be tracked.