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How can I hide 'Recommended for you' videos in my Youtube side bar?



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How can I hide 'Recommended for you' videos in my Youtube side bar?

Whenever I'm on Youtube, they insist on showing the weirdest video previews in the side bar menu - such as this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3vthNMkzI (not sure why they think I want to watch that specific video, but it's ALWAYS there and I'm creeped out by the idea of seeing it, even if only at the side of my eye).

How can I hide

I'm subscribed to TheRichest, but this is not my taste in video, so again unsure of why it's showing up as being 'Recommended' when it's not something I would ever watch. :/

Whatever I'm watching, whatever topic, it shows up.

I just want to hide it or make it stop showing, without having to unsubscribe from that channel.

Is there a way to get this done, to hide the video so it's not showing as a 'recommended' video for me?

Maybe not a big deal for anyone else, but a huge deal for me. Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can provide.

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idealmike
You could always hide parts of your screen on YouTube if you use a 3rd party app called "TunnelVision". With TunnelVision installed you can blacken out part of your screen. This is done automatically, and one of the options how it could look like is shown on the screenshot below. You can also change this so it just blackens out the sidebar on YouTube. For instance, you can change the diameter and shape of the visible part. You can change it from a circle shape to rectangle or square, and increase the diameter to see more of the screen etc.
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Other TunnelVision configuration features include;
  • Configurable viewport shape, size
  • Configurable color
  • Configurable background image (with tiling, scale, centered modes)
  • Tiny program, low memory footprint (when no background image is used)

It can be downloaded and installed from http://www.cockos.com/tunnelvision/

It might not be the perfect solution for you but it's a viable workaround. How can I hide

Hope it helps!



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Beverly
Thanks! How can I hide

This is a really neat idea. I will give it a try. Not something I'd considered before and never realized you could do this. A very clever solution. How can I hide



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procoder
This it's not an option that can be disabled because it's the algorithm of youtube,but you can reset your watch history, because those videos are based on your watch & search history.

Go to : https://www.youtube.com/feed/history, click "Clear all watch history" and then click "Pause watch history" .

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Beverly
I just don't remember ever wanting to watch something so grotesque! :/

Though I am subscribed to TheRichest channel. Thanks for this tip, I will definitely do this



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procoder
Stated by Youtube, regarding watch history option:
YouTube watch history makes it easy to find videos you recently watched and improves your video recommendations. You can control your watch history by deleting or pausing your history. You can delete individual items or delete your entire history. When you pause history, any videos that you watch while history is paused won't show in history and won’t be used to improve your recommendations. You can unpause your history to start recording history again.

Source :https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en



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Lynne
Yes I thought it was based on your history, makes me wonder what you've been watching!



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EliteWriter
Oh yes, this happens to me too sometimes. The weirdest and most unrelated videos are recommended at times and I just cannot stand it. I think that procoder must be right that it is ultimately related with YouTube's algorithm, but like you I haven't got the slightest idea that at any point in time I searched anything remotely connected to what they sometimes suggest. I will check out what you mentioned Procoder, and I would like to thank you Beverly for this discussion as I have always wanted to learn what i could do to avoid this.



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Beverly
On occasion, a family member will watch videos when signed in as my Youtube account and possibly someone in the household watched something similar to this. If not that, then I don't know what it can be. They have my interests all wrong. Thanks for your support. I will try some of the above suggestions.



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