We live at a time when algorithms are everywhere, deciding at any time what we must see and read: we just have to enter any social network to meet a food full of Videos and content suggested accounts that we do not even follow And people we don't know. The objective of the platforms is to spend more time using them and the content recommended by algorithms is the key to improving the engagement.
This is something that is particularly boring on YouTube, where the recommendations section It can be filled with videos that do not interest us the least with great ease. It has ever happened to us: just reproduce any video of a particular theme (an interview or a cat video) so that the food Excellency video platform is filled with dozens of similar videos.
I don't always want to see videos related to the last one I saw
Despite this, the truth is that the recommendations section is extremely useful. In fact, most of the YouTube videos that I see on a daily basis come from there: it seems to me a good way to be up to date with the videos published by the canals that I am and the themes that interest me. Even if it spends several days or even weeks without entering YouTube, The platform knows how to recommend what interests me.
The problem is that he food YouTube can be unusable if we are not careful When reproducing videos, because the algorithm takes into account all the videos we see when we recommend content. In fact, it is quite insistent and often continues to recommend the same video even if we generally do not watch videos of this theme and spent days without reproducing the one who recommends us.
It caused my way of using the platformAs there are times when I would like the algorithm not to take into account the video I have just seen: I may have seen a video at a timely moment, but that does not mean that I am interested in continuing to watch videos of the same theme. The key in these cases is to use the unconscious of Youtube. Do not leave a trace of the videos we see, but to prevent YouTube from recommending similar content.
The unknown YouTube mode is perfect for the occasions when we do not want the recommendation system to take into account the videos we will see. Use it, we will prevent youtube from filling cat videos
He Incognized YouTube Mode It is available both in the web version and in the different applications of the platform: just activate it so that the videos we see during the session are not stored in our history (or in research or in reproductions). Use it, we will prevent the platform from recommending food.
If you forgot to activate the incognito mode and the recommendations section of the platform began to suggest videos that are not interested, there is a way to resolve it. Everything you have to do is Manually delete video in a question in the story of YouTubeSomething that has only one moment. It is important to keep in mind that we do not refer to the history of the browser, but to that of the platform itself.
Doing it is very simple, although the steps to follow depend on the device you use to see YouTube. If you watch videos of the mobile application for your mobile image and access 'configuration'> 'Manage the whole history', from where you can delete videos by pressing the button with the 'X' which appears next to each. By doing this, you will keep the rest of the algorithm recommendationsBut the video you have just deleted will not be taken into account.
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