Incident #34F7E8 · 02 OCT 2026minor
YouTube privacy policy now says ad personalization uses activity across devices
A sentence about cookies and preferences now says search results or ads may be personalized based on your activity 'across devices'. The effective-date line was also removed, which is a formatting change.
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- Ad and search personalization may now draw on your activity across devices, not just the current one
Evidence · 2 of 2 quotes matched in source
This allows us to do things like maintain your preferences across browsing sessions, such as your preferred language or whether to show you more relevant search results or ads based on your activity across devices.+ inserted · ✓ matched in source
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