This nuclear option is best if you never want to see or use YouTube recommended videos. Just keep in mind that this can make the service a lot less useful. The quickest and safest way to remove YouTube recommendations is via a browser extension, meaning that there's no easy way to remove YouTube recommendations on other platforms like the mobile or TV apps.
YouTube recommendation-blocking browser extensions are available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and other popular browsers, and include the following. Unhook is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Once installed, the extension removes the YouTube recommendations sidebar, up-next video, and the video suggestions that appear once a video is done. It even hides everything on the YouTube homepage by default.
By opening the extension's menu, you can toggle its options to show some of these elements, or hide others like the comments and video info. Unhook is easy to use, works well, and is an effective way to reduce distractions on YouTube.
This is an open-source Firefox extension that, by default, hides the YouTube homepage, end-of-video suggested content, and the recommendations sidebar. You can use the extension options to select which elements you want to remove, and which to keep if any.
In addition to the above, you can hide video comments, info cards, and similar. Unlike Unhook, this extension does not turn off autoplay. ImprovedTube is a slightly different take on removing YouTube recommendations.
Instead of hiding everything, the ImprovedTube helps you hide specific elements of the YouTube page. For instance, you can hide the footer, related videos, comments, live chat, and more. ImprovedTube goes a lot further, though. Aside from changing the interface, it also adds tons of useful options like setting the default playback speed, handy shortcuts, loudness normalization, and similar. If you're a YouTube fanatic, it makes the site much more customizable. Now you know how to control the recommendations you see on YouTube.
Whether you want to reset YouTube's recommendations and start fresh, disable recommendations based on your preferences, or hide recommended videos entirely, you have options. You can bend YouTube's slew of videos to what you desire to get out of the service. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read.
Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Stop getting video recommendations from YouTube for Android There's a new notification setting in the YouTube for Android app that lets you toggle whether the app recommends videos based on your viewing history. Nicole Cozma. It allows you to temporarily prevent YouTube from gathering search history:.
Instead of deleting watched videos one by one, you can also clear the entire history from your Google account.
Taking this risk into account, this is how to clear your YouTube watch history on your computer:. Therefore, you can modify your personal information so that Google and YouTube deem you an adult:. If not, enter your login information. According to founder Jawed Karim a. So it should come as no surprise that for many years, the YouTube algorithm recommended the videos that attracted the most views or clicks. Alas, this led to a proliferation of misleading titles and thumbnails—in other words, clickbait.
User experience plummeted as videos left people feeling tricked, unsatisfied, or plain old annoyed. In , YouTube adjusted its recommendation system to support time spent watching each video, as well as time spent on the platform overall. When people find videos valuable and interesting or so the theory goes they watch them for longer, perhaps even to the end.
This led some creators to try to make their videos shorter in order to make it more likely viewers would watch to completion, whereas others made their videos longer in order to increase watch time overall. That said, as anyone who has ever spent any time on the internet knows, time spent is not necessarily equivalent to quality time spent. YouTube changed tack again. In short, the algorithm had gotten way more personal. The goal was to find the video each particular viewer wants to watch , not just the video that lots of other people have perhaps watched in the past.
YouTube has said it is serious about its responsibility to support a diverse range of opinions while reducing the spread of harmful misinformation. Violative content, on the other hand, is immediately removed. This issue affects creators, who fear accidentally running afoul of ever-changing community guidelines and being punished with strikes, demonetization, or worse.
The YouTube algorithm selects videos for viewers with two goals in mind: finding the right video for each viewer , and enticing them to keep watching. YouTube says that in , homepage and suggested videos are usually the top sources of traffic for most channels. Except for explainer or instructional videos i. Each traffic source is slightly different.
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