guuggye

Never thought of that, will that really work? I might have a spare router lying around to test it. Thanks!

It's possible my viewing habits overlap with say 68% of others. But I've seen recommendations that match what I would assume to be my more niche interests. As for not closing all private browsing tabs, I've made that mistake before, but I still see the same pattern of recommendations when using single session browsers or separate devices.

Thanks again for the follow-up.

Yeah I'm unsure what information they use or have access to in order to form recommendations. But I'm almost certain it's not limited to just IP addresses.

Thank you both. I typically log onto a separate "guest" Wi-Fi network that I enable through my router. Though maybe that's not exactly the same?

I'll need to double check the settings to be sure about the network isolation.

But as mentioned that still doesn't address the public IP concerns.

I don't distrust them so much and I think an administrator would have better things to do. That said, I'd prefer not giving them the opportunity and if it's at all practical "better safe than sorry" as they say.

Thanks for the suggestion.

That hasn't been my experience, when opening a private window the default feed I see on YouTube mostly matches what I would see if logged in.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions and responses.

That is it! Thanks so much.

I had tried searching first but this didn’t turn up in the search results.