You can remove recommended content that you're not interested in from your Home. Removing these videos can help improve your recommendations so that you see more videos that are relevant to your interests.
On your smart TV or game console
Remove recommended content from homepage
You can remove recommended videos by selecting 'Not interested' on your homepage or from your Home and Watch Next pages on mobile:
- Press and hold the select button on your remote.
- Select Not interested.
- Select 'Tell us why' to share why you'd like the video removed. You can select I've already watched the video, I don't like the video or Don't recommend channel to customise your recommendations.
Clear 'Not interested' and 'Don't recommend channel' feedback
Your 'Not interested' and 'Don't recommend channel' feedback may be used to tune your recommendations. To clear all the 'Not interested' and 'Don't recommend channel' feedback that you've submitted, please follow the instructions below using your computer, Android, iPhone or iPad.
Recommendations using your Google activity
YouTube uses data from your Google Account activity to influence your recommendations.
You can view and control your activity at myactivity.google.com. Learn more about controlling activity for your Google Account.
The following recommended content can be removed from the homepage on your computer:
- Videos
- Channels
- Sections
- Playlists
The following recommended content can be removed from the homepage on your computer:
- Videos
- Channels
- Sections
- Playlists
You can also remove recommended videos from the Watch Next page on your computer.
Remove recommended video
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Click More
next to the title.
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Click Not interested
to remove the video from your feed.
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Select Tell us why to share why you'd like the video removed. You can select I've already watched the video or I don't like the video to customise your recommendations.
to remove the video from your feed.Remove recommended channel
- Click More
- Select Don't recommend channel
.
.Clear 'Not interested' feedback
Your 'Not Interested' feedback may be used to tune your recommendations. To clear all of your 'Not interested' feedback:
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Go to My Activity. You might need to sign in.
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On the left-hand side, go to Other Google activity.
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Under 'YouTube "Not interested" feedback', click Delete.
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