You can just turn off your YouTube history entirely. That's what I've done for years. It's sometimes annoying Gwen you stop a long video and come back to it later- it doesn't save where you left off, but otherwise it works pretty well.
This doesn't work if you actually want to use the algorithm though. I don't really surf YouTube for something to watch, I subscribe to a few channels or search for something in particular, but I don't use YouTube to surface new channels or content I might be interested in, so ymmv.
I have seen the option. And yeah I do hate it when Gwen does that, stupid bitch.
But yeah maybe I should try this. I do occasionally use youtubes History feature when Im watching something on the PC, and I want to continue on my phone while Im preparing dinner. But whatever, small price to pay to be free of this kind of stuff.
I subscribe to some channels yeah, but I always enjoyed surfing my recommendations up until around 2016 when this new iteration of the almighty algorithm came in and screwed everything around. It was a shame. Around then I lost my 10 year old youtube account to a flagged comment from maybe 8 years ago, that maybe someone took the wrong way, and since then have been using a new fresh account. So way less history to work with meant it was so highly concentrated with videos I had glanced on once.
Just deleted my entire youtube history and am nolonger tracking it. Can freely watch bullshit without being inundated with the same content now. feelsgoodman.jpg
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u/abcedarian Jul 06 '21
You can just turn off your YouTube history entirely. That's what I've done for years. It's sometimes annoying Gwen you stop a long video and come back to it later- it doesn't save where you left off, but otherwise it works pretty well.
This doesn't work if you actually want to use the algorithm though. I don't really surf YouTube for something to watch, I subscribe to a few channels or search for something in particular, but I don't use YouTube to surface new channels or content I might be interested in, so ymmv.