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minus-squareboywar3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThere is still a footprint of “person is watching X, then they go to Y” with or without an account by my understanding. Its less valuable data, sure, but it all feeds thr algorithm
minus-squareboywar3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThe effort/cost expended to go after a tiny group of people vs the amount of money generated/saved from stopping them was (and probably still is) not worth it. There just aren’t that many people who use 3rd party services without accounts.
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There is still a footprint of “person is watching X, then they go to Y” with or without an account by my understanding.
Its less valuable data, sure, but it all feeds thr algorithm
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The effort/cost expended to go after a tiny group of people vs the amount of money generated/saved from stopping them was (and probably still is) not worth it. There just aren’t that many people who use 3rd party services without accounts.