The creepy thing is Youtube would show me ads related to what I was tweeting about this past year.
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warren, youtube datamines cookies and FF/Safari history.
I run a very tight debian ship over here, and I'll be doing something, and a day or half a day later, I'll get youtubes top videos showing up as ...
stuff i searched for on qwant.com, or even mentioned on mastodon..
That shouldn't be possible. It should get treated as a severe security bug, and YouTube should be sued for exploiting it.
I agree, in exacting specificity.
use ff developer mostly, and here's the vague, although definitive (i know what i saw) evidence over here.
https://www.writehere.is/nwo/proof-youtube-tracks-you-across-the-web-from-inside-your-browser
i dont think this is correct. more likely it is just a tracking cookie used to build a profile of you whenever google assets are loaded.
ie, you watched some youtube videos, then went to twtiter, where another youtube video was shared, this is then added to a profile of your 'interests'.
either way, i recommend downloading ungoogled-chromium and only accessing google services (and nothing else) through that one browser.
I suspect they make use of your IP address, maybe browser fingerprinting as well. That way they may be able to track you without cookies and across browsers.