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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    14 days ago

    I assume its a cookie setting, as I see the same behavior when I turn off tracking protection and ad blockers.

    It goes way deeper than that. Fingerprinting is a whole thing. Your IP, combined with some characteristics about your browser, operating system and hardware… pretty unique.

    Interesting to see what YT “thinks” about you.

    I see 1995 twice there.

    • l_b_i@pawb.social
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      14 days ago

      Probably cookies, I did another quick test and created a new profile. The front page was unpopulated. I went to a technology connections video, and the refreshed the front page. It was populated, cleared stored information, (history, cookies, cache, etc…) and when I refreshed the homepage it was blank again.

      The fairly default browser I used to take the screenshot is to watch some free with ads movies on youtube, most recently was waterworld, fun to watch, makes no sense.

    • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 days ago

      Nostalgia marketing operates on roughly 20 to 30 year cycles, so we’re dead center of 90s nostalgia. As the current decade wears on, there should be a gradual shift to 2000s era nostalgia (and another revival of the 80s, the most marketable decade). I can’t say that looming war in the middle east doesn’t give me those warm Bush 2 era vibes, though we are a bit early for it.