YouTube services are tied to your Google account, and while using YouTube can be quite educational and informative, the service can also learn a lot about your interests and likes, and these can be used to show you targeted ads that might make some users uncomfortable. And yes, Google makes money this way, lots of money.
While there is no close contender to a service that can compete with YouTube that you could migrate to, there are some ways to prevent Google from using the data it learns about you from tracking you for targeted advertising. Users should be very worried about data collected from a platform like YouTube, because it can show details about their browsing, political views, economic status, interests and much more. Since this data can be tied to their Google Account, it can provide a very wide image of what users do online, which can have a detrimental effect on privacy.
From the previously mentioned privacy dashboard, users can check their YouTube watching history, and then decide whether they want YouTube to store their history going forward. This means that you can instruct the service to stop recording a log of all the videos you watched. Users must choose the “Pause” option that will stop the service tracking your watched videos.
