[bncndn0956]

this is my horror as well. I don't mind my youtube account to be blocked but what about all the recommendations that I have curated to my liking. It will be huge chunk of lost time to rebuild and insert my preferences into the algorithm. increasingly "our preferences shaped by time and influences and encounters both digital and offline" are as much about us as we are physically.

[curioussquirrel]

You could ask GPT for what it knows about you and use it to seed your personal preferences to a new model/app. Not perfect and probably quite lossy, but likely much better than starting from scratch.

[youtubee3]

I have no YouTube account, and it can figure out my viewing history with just watching a few of my favorite channels usually... including specific videos I watched years ago.

So I wouldn't worry about it.