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It’s amazing how we have to cognizantly “open in private window” when we’re doing deep dives on things that we may disagree with.

The algo seems to assume you agree with everything you watch, so you have to be mindful of not sending it mixed signals.

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I've actually conditioned myself to do basically anything in a private window. With Brave mobile I can keep YouTube playing ad-free with the screen locked (or on other screens), so it doesn't affect much there. Plus, it means I don't see other stuff filtering in that I'm not in the mood for (except their promoted crap that quite often has literally no relation to what I'm doing). I'll often even do it on browser too, simply because ad-free without thr tracking and being associated with my Gmail (which I really need to convince myself to get rid of)

I have to confess this never occurred to me but it's a great point.

Does anyone know how much a private window really helps? It should cut out cookies but does not hide your IP address or clickstream patterns.

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