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Comment by lolinder

7 months ago

I don't have premium and it's sticky for me but only on a single computer, I have to reset it if I switch computers or browsers. Same with dark mode. So maybe it's stored as a cookie and they wipe their cookies?

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.

  • On the bright side, you could probably write something to just always reset that cookie before loading the site.

  • YouTube is a small and scrapy startup. Sometimes they have to move fast and break things