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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by Ivoirians on Friday January 25, 2019 @02:25PM (#19001494)
If you delete a video from your Youtube watch history, it doesn't get used for recommendations anymore.

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

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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by colejohnson66 on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:19PM (#19002097)
My anecdotal experience agrees. I cleared my watch history and then all my recommendations changed from being tech related to more pop culture oriented for a few weeks
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by rasz on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:43PM (#19003326)
Its a Lie. I have YT watch history disabled for hmm 2 years now, recommendations "work" just the same.
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by londons_explore on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:11AM (#19005568)
Disabling it != Removing a single item from the list.
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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by rasz on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:20PM (#19008571)
" 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."

is a lie

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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by jobigoud on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:02PM (#19002457)
Unless you have history disabled entirely.

Why can't we opt out completely from "recommendations"?

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