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If you disable watch history YouTube will disable shorts (the exploration feed, not shorts from your subs) and the algorithmic homepage. The setting will affect
by teaearlgraycold 1y ago
If you disable watch history YouTube will disable shorts (the exploration feed, not shorts from your subs) and the algorithmic homepage. The setting will affect all of your YouTube clients. It's a great way to keep away from the general slop.
- krs_ 1y agoYou can only "pause" your watch history, as they call it, for some reason. And I keep having mine become unpaused constantly which I find interesting. I'm not sure if it's one of my clients doing it automatically or if Google just reenables the setting from time to time.
- dinfinity 1y agoMy watch history has been off for almost a decade now. They may weasel you into activating it via some other route that states in the fine print that they need to activate your watch history to provide [random almost unrelated feature].
- krs_ 1y agoHuh interesting. I'm guessing it might be one of my clients then because I haven't actively enabled it again myself, fine print or not.