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0 pointsrtsil5y ago0 comments

I have 2 Youtube accounts on which I watch completely diffent types of videos. One is on Chrome, the other inside a Firefox Container. When I do a google search or just browse something in Chrome, the YT account inside FF will recommend me videos related to the search / browsing, even if they're not at all related to the videos I watch on that account. The YT account on FF will also regularly suggest me videos related to the ones I watch on my Chrome YT account.

The reverse doesn't happen: my DDG searches and FF browsing never bleed on Youtube.

Google (and many others) doesn't care about private mode, separate accounts, profiles or containers.

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BTCOG5y ago· 2 in thread

This is because it's IP based tracking.

beagle35y ago

And people, even on HN, constantly say I'm being "behind the times" and "overly paranoid" when I point out how happy I am to still be on IPv4 with an address that changes every few days or when I restart the router.

Nemo1575y ago

IPv6 != static addresses. My IPv6 prefix changes at least once a day too.

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