The place I was staying had a new type of video service. Usually, you get basic cable but this was what I think was some sort of Hulu variant that included Amazon Prime, Netflix, YouTube and Disney. You logged in using your account to watch these services, but when you turned the set off it cleared your credentials. You could watch YouTube without being logged in, but the other services required an account.
Curiously, the search history on YouTube was not cleared. What I found was that the prior occupants had been interested in wrestling, SEC football and Ukraine. I had to google the wrestling stuff to learn it was wrestling stuff. I was tempted to search for a bunch of weird things to leave the next occupant guessing, but that seemed like more trouble than it was worth. That and you never know who is watching...
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