Very odd TV + Youtube behaviour, possible funny business

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Six or seven months ago I bought a Smart TV for the first time. Since then I have started watching a lot of Youtube content because it is so easy. :) I had built up a load of subscribed channels, and was getting a lot of relevant recommendations based on my past history. Last night before I went to bed the Youtube app started hanging. My internet was OK. I checked whether there was an update, which the was, so updated. The problem persisted. Cleared all the updates, which also included my whole watch history and subscribed channels and still the same. I assumed it was then a Youtube problem, and went to bed, and when I came home today all seemed to be working.

Now I am trying to remember all my subscribed channels by searching for the channel, start watching a vid, pausing it, and the subscribing, then stopping the vid because I had seen it before. Now, here is the odd bit, I have just gone into the history, so the videos I had watched since the reset, and there are seven videos there. Three of them I actually watched, and four that I have not. :eek: :confused: The three of the four that I have not watched are by a chap called Casey Neistat, in fact two by him, and another by Marques Brownlee, but he was the subject of the video, and the other vid by Luminous Landscape. I had looked at a video by Casey Neistat a few months ago as he had been mentioned in a thread, so had a look. I didn't like him, or his video and so have not looked at any of his vids again. Not sure if I had looked at a Luminous Landscape vid at some point. But in my history last night there was nothing, and suddenly four vids that I am 100% sure that I have not watched. :confused: I am the only person who uses this TV btw.

How have three Casey Neistat videos appeared in my history since last night when I have only ever looked at one of his videos ever? The app is set up not to auto play the next video. I see from the info below each thumbnail that each video has millions of views! :eek: Has he found some way to make it appear that his videos are being watched when they are not? :thinking: It could explain why a video about the greatest compact camera has 1.3m views, and a video about his studio has 4.2m views. :eek:
 
YouTube = Google, basically, and Google have a lot of info on your Internet habit/history.
 
I never subscribe to anything, just bookmark them, as with any pages I repeat visit on the WWW. Then I can keep a copy of my bookmarks elsewhere, so I don't loose everything and can email them to myself to use in other places if I need to.
 
Doubtful. That'd be a major issue within YouTube platform if it was possible.

More likely I guess it could have autoplayed on something you visited?
The app was set to not auto play. I did a search today, and it has happened to other people, though generally on a computer, whereas mine was on a TV. Some turned out to be other people using the computer in their home, some were unexplained. :confused: There was no way the other videos should have appeared in my view history. Weirdly enough one that was in the history has now gone, so something is not working properly.:thinking: Some dodgy dealing could have explained how a video about the Sony RX100VI got 1.3m views. :eek:

YouTube = Google, basically, and Google have a lot of info on your Internet habit/history.
I know, but I had only ever looked at one Casey Neistat videos, and I never watched it all as I found him very irritating. :rolleyes:

I never subscribe to anything, just bookmark them, as with any pages I repeat visit on the WWW. Then I can keep a copy of my bookmarks elsewhere, so I don't loose everything and can email them to myself to use in other places if I need to.
Hard to do on the TV. ;) Because the Youtube app is so easy to watch on the TV is the reason why I have been watching a lot more stuff on there.
 
Are you signed into YouTube on the TV or just viewing anonymously? If the former, perhaps you are also signed in on another device and you’re seeing the views from there too?
 
Are you signed into YouTube on the TV or just viewing anonymously? If the former, perhaps you are also signed in on another device and you’re seeing the views from there too?
I'm only signed into my Google account on the TV. The history was cleared when the YT app was reset. so it was empty, and then the vids appeared after I had watched a few others. I do occasionally log into the same account on a computer to check for emails mistaken as Spam, and reply emails from that address (all emails are forwarded to another account I have open all the time) and haven't logged into it for a week or two on a computer. And that still doen't explain why videos appeared in the history which I had not watched ever, anywhere. Like I said, it is an odd occurrence. :confused: :thinking:
 
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