Step 1 - Delete YouTube

Step 2 - Go outside

I don’t understand why people don’t turn off youtube watch history. I nuked my account about a year ago and have since made a new account with a burner email adress. Turned off all tracking and history for YouTube and all affiliate Google accounts and all the recommended videos are completely random shit. They’re basically sidebar ads to me now, I dont even notice they’re there. I want to watch a video - search it, watch it, thats it never see any other shit about.

I use YouTube almost exclusively for ASMR, metal forging, and engineering disaster documentaries. That’s all my recommended feed is now. YouTube wants you to watch things on there and keep watching them, the algorithm really doesn’t care what you watch to do that. The more you watch non-political stuff and avoid/immediately click away from political stuff, the more it will recommend non-political stuff.

I mean I use newpipe and grayjay. So like only channels I sub to show up

Keep ignoring the videos and choosing “don’t recommend this channel”, eventually they will diminish.

My shorts feed cleaned up eventually like this.