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I accidentally stumbled upon a feature in YouTube that's killed my binging altogether. Turn YouTube Watch History off (Google Account > Data & Privacy > YouTub
by atonse 3y ago
I accidentally stumbled upon a feature in YouTube that's killed my binging altogether.
Turn YouTube Watch History off (Google Account > Data & Privacy > YouTube History). I mostly did it cuz I didn't want Google to have a history of all my YouTube videos, but the accidental effect is that when I go to youtube, I literally have a blank screen (no suggested videos) and instead it just says "turn search history back on"
This means that I have to actually search for a particular topic to start watching about it, and most times when I'd be consuming more, I don't have the mental capacity to pick a topic I care about.
The one hitch is that if you subscribe to channels, you'll still see all those videos, but those update very infrequently and you don't see a bunch of nonsense you don't have to watch.
- ahamilton454 3y agoI have done that and it is very nice. I also use this chrome extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtube-rec/khncfooichmfjbepaaaebmommgaepoid https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtu...
- carom 3y agoThat is the Youtube start page I want but I use history regularly to find videos between devices.