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YouTube Might Finally Get An Incognito Mode (androidpolice.com)
Currently, you can head to the "History and Privacy" settings in YouTube and toggle on the options to pause watch and search history if you don't want the site to track your searches and watched videos, but that can be a bit complicated each time you want to search for something weird. According to Android Police, "YouTube will make it a little easier to go into incognito without digging into many settings and without having to disable it later." A new "Incognito Mode" will appear when you tap your account avatar in the top right of the app. From the report: With "Incognito Mode" on, all your activity from the current session is not saved and subscriptions are hidden too. It's as if you were signed out without being so, and there's a neat incognito icon replacing your avatar. If you turn off Incognito or become inactive on YouTube, you'll be back to using your own account.
You're probably right. The easiest way to find the people that law enforcement wants to know about is to let you turn on a "don't watch me, I'm not doing anything sketchy" option.
They are talking about adding this to the YouTube Android App, not the website. If using the website, you still have to pause your history the old way I'm guessing. But even then your history would still be saved by your browser. So realistically you'd have to go into Incognito mode, AND pause your history too.
Finally I can watch hairy girls doing armpit farts without it showing in my history!
Problem is that half the videos on Youtube then become inaccessible because, just in case some snowflake might get offended by a comedian making a joke with a naughty word in it, they restrict them to logged-in users only. About the only thing you can safely watch en masse without being logged in is cat videos, World's Funniest Decapitation Accidents, and 10,000,000 videos of millenials whining about something.
And then have to log in again because the content requires you to prove you are 18+, so I have heard.
This is called the frequency illusion or Baader Meinhof phenomenon. Basically, selective attention - it was going to be there regardless, but because it's something you've seen or discussed elsewhere recently it is more easily noticed.
Just as with sports. You yell at the screen.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.