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1. wpm+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-04-30 20:08:06
Yes, it's stored client-side in a cookie.

Surely you don't expect YouTube, a company that doesn't store any data at all actually, to be able to store a single boolean value somewhere in your account, do you? This would be impossible for a company as broke and small as YouTube.

replies(2): >>malfis+Vo >>knome+BA
2. malfis+Vo[view] [source] 2025-04-30 22:57:34
>>wpm+(OP)
YouTube is a small and scrapy startup. Sometimes they have to move fast and break things
3. knome+BA[view] [source] 2025-05-01 00:36:34
>>wpm+(OP)
On the bright side, you could probably write something to just always reset that cookie before loading the site.
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