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Deactivate your youtube recommendation feed myactivity.google.com

470 sats \ 7 comments \ @south_korea_ln 26 Jun tech

My wife finally asked me to do it for her, too. I forgot how I did, but turns out it is very easy.

Visit myactivity.google.com
Search for youtube history section
turn off or pause it
I then also had to click the history tab in her youtube to delete past history.

And voila, no recommendations anymore, no Youtube rabbit hole of crap. This is what she sees now when visiting youtube:

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159 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 26 Jun

I do this on my solo personal account. It's at times a little inconvenient but perhaps that's the way it should be.

131 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 26 Jun

I like the YouTube feed because it's mostly videos from channels I'm subscribed to. And every now and then, I find videos/channels I wouldn't have found otherwise.

88 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 22h

The issue is that the feed was too good. I ended up watching interesting stuff all the time. But it was also optimized to keep me hooked in a more pernicious way. If I were watching a mukbang video, it would end up recommending me hundreds of them. It's ok to watch one out of curiosity, it's awful when I realized that's all I had been doing for the last hour.

EDIT: I guess your experience could be different as I barely subscribed to any channel. I maybe ended up watching more shit because i'd be fully at the algorithm's mercy to decide what to shine into my eyeballs, rather than tuning it by actively telling it what i like. Be it what it may, my main goal with this is just to stop spending hours on end watching stuff on youtube.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 22h

I should do this but i probably wont

94 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 19h

Do it~~

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 10h

I can’t I’m completely cucked by YouTube

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 10h

Not using an account also works. Unless it is essential for you to comment on videos.