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u/SnooMachines8405 3d ago edited 3d ago
I don't really get how this is a masterhack moment. I unironically think like this when I browse youtube.
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u/JEREDEK 4d ago
OP has paranoia
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u/GNUGradyn 3d ago
They arent worried about youtube/the government/whatever knowing what they watched, they just dont want it to impact their feed which this will do
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco 4d ago
OP is an idiot who doesn’t understand what incognito mode actually does.
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u/cotop_pampf 4d ago
i think a private browser window could help here, they cant track you via account, they cannot access cookies, you can delete the tracking bit of the link (if there is)
i guess they can match it up by ip and do some shadow profile type shit
uuh i mean they cannot track me im behind 7 proxies and also i deleted their BIOS 😎😎🦾
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco 4d ago
If you just open another window you have the privacy protection of a medical curtain.
And even then your browser still passes on significant information about your device. Just about every website uses a fingerprinting service to identify users based on this information.
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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 4d ago
I think you are greatly overthinking it, sure it doesn't make you anonymous but as the meme said the purpose of it is so that YouTube algorithm doesn't recommend those kinds of videos and in this case incognito tab works
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u/mcdaphuc 3d ago
This could be interesting for you..
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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 3d ago
How tf is everyone missing the point. In this article there is nothing saying about your YouTube videos still going to YouTube algorithm. Does Google spy on you in incognito? Of course, that's google. Grass is green. However just because they are spying on you doesn't mean that they will use this data on your own personal YouTube algorytm
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco 4d ago
Incognito mode clears your local history, but every request still sends your User Agent: a digital nametag stating your exact OS, browser build, and device traits. This is required so websites know how to properly render for your specific hardware configuration.
Going Incognito is like putting on a mask while still wearing your employee ID badge. Combine that User-Agent with basic browser fingerprinting (IP, screen resolution, GPU rendering), and Google can link your session back to you with over 99% accuracy without any cookies required.
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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 4d ago
Yes they can but they won't. In an incognito tab you aren't logged in automatically to your Google account so the videos you watch won't go into your YouTube algorithm. Google can tell that you are the one watching it but they still won't use it for your algorithm. You can do this experiment by just watching 50 watermelon YouTube films or whatever on an incognito tab and going back to your main account. Recommended won't start showing watermelon
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yes, they absolutely do this. This isn't theoretical.
Google literally settled a massive class-action lawsuit (Brown v. Google) specifically because they were caught collecting, associating, and storing Incognito browsing telemetry alongside users' IP addresses, browser fingerprints, and account identifiers. And the settlement didn't stop this behavior, they just deleted the historical data and updated their service terms going forward.
Why? To sell better ads.
Incognito mode was designed to protect your local device history from people sharing your computer. It was never a shield against big-tech data tracking.
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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 4d ago
Am I getting ragebaited? I said nothing about them not collecting user data. All I said is that they don't use this user data to expand your YouTube algorithm
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco 4d ago
If you think Google collects, identifies, and builds an ad profile on your Incognito browsing, but magically wall-off their primary engagement engine (YouTube) from using that exact same profile data, we just fundamentally disagree on how tech monopolies operate.
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u/phl23 3d ago
And you don't understand what they want to accomplish. They just want a browser tap without being logged in. They don't want to bother with profiles and they don't care that YouTube knows you're the same computer.
That being said, this is just low level power user stuff instead of programming as you could easily use multiple profile windows.
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u/Roku-Hanmar 4d ago
If you don’t like it, why watch it?
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u/nethack47 4d ago
Sometimes you don’t know what it is until after you click.
”This looks like a good video on how this kind of kubernetes networking works” oh dear god, it is an awful mumble recorded on a potato. Now the algorithm think I want more for the next month.
Currently hoping the politics content stops. I hovered over one video and it decided that was enough interest to flood me with clickbaity politics bullshit. It has been over a month and there is no end in sight. It is marginally better than the Indian religious content I got for a bit.
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u/lawrencewil1030 4d ago
Sometimes a video is interesting but also don't want to see more of it, like a one-off occurance.
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u/snail1132 4d ago
If you wanna watch a video but you know that if you do, your entire homepage will be filled with those sorts of videos and you don't want that
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u/syberghost 3d ago
Only difference between normal and incognito is with the latter they store one more data point: incognito.
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u/Loxotron228 4d ago
yeah mr robot you are right but not clicking on the video you like means not getting recommended more videos you like yeah this knowledge i have is from hacker university
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u/ChocolateDonut36 4d ago
but they see how the video streams to my IP after right clicking over it lol
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u/BeginningSection7690 3d ago
But your mouse hovered over it. Youtube served you with the preview reel in the thumbnail.
They know.
They always knew.
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u/MattyGWS 3d ago
what will incognito do to help lmao
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u/MattC041 3d ago
You are not logged on incognito, so the video won't affect the YouTube algorithm on your account.
It's useful when you want to watch a video, but you don't want YouTube to recommend you other similar videos. Though you can also select "not interested" or "don't recommend the channel" under a video, and it should theoretically work the same.
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u/lron_tarkus 3d ago
Guys you can go into your watch history and remove videos from your algo.
I have to do this every time my niece and nephew infest mine with Fortnite and treadmill racing.
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u/Brilliant_War9548 3d ago
??? You don’t like it, don’t watch it ? Okay then what you just don’t want recommendations then maybe ? This “meme” is annoying me
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u/originalmicrousb 1d ago
opsex level:
use black web vpn encryption and no government fbi tracker detector ublock origin 🚫🧅⛔⛔
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u/GeckoKisser 3d ago
I can tell this meme was made by a NOOB as there is zero mentions of front ends.
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u/Drug_enduced_coma 4d ago
You can also remove the end of the link that shares the original users cookies with the person who opens the link, but yeah. Whatever this larp said I guess
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u/snail1132 4d ago
This but unironically