lzim

So, I finished my PC Tech Support class not too long ago, at least the theory part, and now for 10 weeks on of the job training.

yay...

I make setting up computers fun by leaving little touches here and there. Most probably end users (corporate office movers and shakers) won't notice some of the extra things I do to their machines, and the rest won't care.

The fun is if any of them complain about tweaks that should be great, and want it set to a stock standard bland layout. Narf I guess some people don't care about computers anyway, any more than a pen or pencil.

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meanwhile,

have you tried youtube.com/leanback yet?

I like it, but I ran into a strange problem,

what I wrote to google about it:

I've been enjoying youtube.com/leanback as an awesome alternative to youtube.com for a time now. I frankly hate youtube.com even for just searching for video content as if I was searching google for a webpage result. I just don't like looking at a page full of junk results. And the arrow key interface in IE8 is not enough to ruin the experience (though the god awful behavior in chrome.. I'm not going there).

leanback's suggestions and results matched my expectation (of provided more results that are inline with previous searches) so much that I was practically evangelizing it. Having to login though doesn't appeal to people enough for them to even bother checking it out. I'm started to understand why they have a problem with it relying on an account and stored search data.

Basically my personal enjoyment of leanback ended abruptly in the last 10 minutes because I was trying to search for something, found it, then decided to linger a while as usual to see what appeared in my feed. Today that resulted in all kinds of results that make no sense based on anything I normally hit up youtube or google for. This and leanback not supporting HTML5.

It took me a few minutes and replying to a friend about a facebook post I made earlier about an ad sonsored leanback (with HTML5) being more useful because it could have (interactive targeted ads) for samples and full copyright protected videos. Whatever, that's something down the road. But it hit me that the off the wall results I was getting back from leanback today as the result of having logged in to leanback at someone elses computer. The person even made the claim of not being a fan of youtube. At face value that means this depth of this poisoning is deeper than I can imagine as I have no idea when last that machines cache was purged and who else was making searches on there that might have infected my account's search information.

NOW,

1, this is eye opening because it means logging into any other cache will poison my result. BOO
2, I now have a very good idea of the stuff they look at because I know what I look at and anything else belongs to that other cache.

SO,

privacy catastrophe aside, because I don't give a crap about it.

how do I get back the leanback I fell in love with? and I'm happy to have it totally forget about me and it take a while to rebuild all my own searches so that the results of my feed are at least related to my own personal interests.

I leave room though for the possibility that I'm totally wrong and the last couple of weeks using leanback and enjoying it is just my imagination and it only just all of a sudden stopped working today... because I'm certain I've used leanback on other machines but only just now noticed really freaked out results coming up.