Log out of YouTube and the recommendation engine goes blind. That engine picks 70% of everything watched on the platform, over a billion hours a day, and it runs almost entirely on your watch history. Take the history away and YouTube falls back on the same crude method it used in 2007, showing everyone in your region roughly the same stuff. That fallback is the whole trick behind the "old internet" feeling. The 2007 homepage was identical for every visitor on Earth. Most Viewed, Featured…

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