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Allow the user to decide whether to browse incognito or non-incognito #10

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kingsman142 opened this issue Mar 17, 2020 · 0 comments
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kingsman142 commented Mar 17, 2020

Scenario:

  • A user is signed into Youtube because they like Youtube's video recommendations (e.g. their favorite comedians or vloggers). However, currently, when somebody uses the extension, and the Youtube bookmarks are looped through, Youtube's use of cookies makes it so those bookmarks (the ones the extension loops through) directly influence Youtube's recommendations, even when the user goes back to browsing Youtube after they're done using the extension. As such, if the user has bookmarks of videos that are 10+ years old, Youtube will begin suggesting other related videos from 10+ years ago. For obvious reasons, this is undesirable.

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  • One possible avenue to tackle this challenge is to do nothing and to let the bookmarks influence somebody's Youtube recommendations. However, this can become annoying for some reasons.
  • A possible fix is to introduce a toggle option in the extension's popup where the user selects whether the created window is in normal Chrome mode or incognito Chrome mode. In this scenario, Youtube won't create cookies for this playlist's bookmarks, therefore not influencing somebody's Youtube recommendations. The downside to this is if people use Adblock to skip ads on videos. In this scenario, a user would have to manually allow Adblock to work in incognito mode, which basically just means the downside of this approach is manual work on the user's end.
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