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Paranoid - logging out panic?! What is this?

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Neverlander · 13/12/2022 21:12

So, if your partner quickly logged out of a YouTube account and signed in using a different account when you sat down next to him and wanted to join in watching videos (on the main TV)... would your spidey senses be pricked. Or, could someone offer an reasonable and less paranoid explanation.

I'm not even sure what I think it could be- not porn necessarily, maybe embarrassing or inappropriate videos, or something weirder? Subscriptions to things I would think odd?

Would you happily stream to the tv via your own personal YouTube account or might you also panic - for innocent reasons?

I always watch signed out as I don't like being algorithmed constantly. Just wondering if I'm being over paranoid - in the past (with different men) I've ignored little things like this that made me feel weird, and it's not turned out well... Confused

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Neverlander · 14/12/2022 20:28

desperatehousewife21 · 14/12/2022 14:15

Does he have YouTube logged in on any other device? iPad etc

Yes, all the time on his iPad.

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Jumbojem · 14/12/2022 20:36

My YouTube viewings show up on the bloody Google home hub in the lounge. Not that it's anything I'm embarrassed about but it was annoying having them visible to all the family.
I'm not really onboard with trying to snoop on what he's been watching though. Either you trust him or you don't? Would you like it if he snuck onto your tablet or phone to see what you've been watching?
I'd probably just innocently ask why he has more than one YouTube account and see what he says. It could be nothing at all!

Neverlander · 14/12/2022 21:26

Jumbojem · 14/12/2022 20:36

My YouTube viewings show up on the bloody Google home hub in the lounge. Not that it's anything I'm embarrassed about but it was annoying having them visible to all the family.
I'm not really onboard with trying to snoop on what he's been watching though. Either you trust him or you don't? Would you like it if he snuck onto your tablet or phone to see what you've been watching?
I'd probably just innocently ask why he has more than one YouTube account and see what he says. It could be nothing at all!

No I wouldn't be happy. I'd be really upset. However, I suspect I'm less likely to be looking at anything sleazy - he claims he doesn't watch porn etc but I am not 100% sure I believe that (he used to, and previous partners have also just tended to lie about it), so yes, I'm wary.

Obviously I don't think the YouTube is porn, but I did have a gut feeling there was something he really didn't want me to see.

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Billsandfights · 14/12/2022 21:58

I made a new account on YouTube to watch videos of ladies giving birth, purely so my partner wouldn’t be freaked out if he logged onto mine and seen the history 😂😂😂

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