Check your youtube viewing history!

[hounddoghowlie]

I've been awol for a while because my tablet died and I couldn't remember my password. Lol.

Anyhow, my new tablet is super efficient and likes to send me notifications. I kept getting 'shared controls' notifications  from youtube,  Hmm, I thought, what's that all about?
A quick search on the interwebs led me to Reddit, where people were freaking out because there were random videos in their youtube history that they had never and would never watch, some in foreign languages, some had apparently been watched at times when they were asleep or at work,  


So I decided to check my youtube history. Sure enough, there's a  load of stuff I didn't watch, like Disney stuff and things a little kid would watch. 

I've cleared my history and paused it, and the notifications have stopped. I don't think it's a hack, I'm pretty  sure it's  the autoplay function generating ad income for youtube surreptitiously.

I checked mine and as best as my CRS allows it seems to be only videos that i watched. Now there are the occasional ones that I didn't turn off the auto play and left a tab open that ran several after the one I watched. I have found open tabs that they were running from time to time. I can only guess that i didn't know they were running cause I couldn't hear them over the headphones when I pulled them off.