[krs_]

You can only "pause" your watch history, as they call it, for some reason. And I keep having mine become unpaused constantly which I find interesting. I'm not sure if it's one of my clients doing it automatically or if Google just reenables the setting from time to time.

[dinfinity]

My watch history has been off for almost a decade now.

They may weasel you into activating it via some other route that states in the fine print that they need to activate your watch history to provide [random almost unrelated feature].

[krs_]

Huh interesting. I'm guessing it might be one of my clients then because I haven't actively enabled it again myself, fine print or not.