If you have your YouTube watch history disabled and you are now being prompted to turn it on if you want to receive recommendations, you're not alone. Watch history on YouTube is used to generate ...

Protect your digital footprint on YouTube. Learn how to auto-delete watch history, hide your playlists, and disable ...

Google promises that if you turn off your watch history, your YouTube page will become simpler and cleaner. Google promises that if you turn off your watch history, your YouTube page will become ...

Recommended videos keep users engaged on YouTube, but starting today, YouTube will stop showing recommended videos in some places, such as the homepage, if your watch history is turned off entirely.

YouTube now requires signed-in users to turn on their watch history if they want recommendations. The change has already started rolling out and will reach all users in the next few months. Your ...

YouTube announced Tuesday that its newest update disables all its video recommendations for users who have their watch history turned off, solving an arguably annoying problem for those who may not ...

YouTube’s homepage may look different for some users going forward. Right now, YouTube has some suggestions for me. It thinks I might like to tune in to a live webcam from Venice or Italy, or clips ...

YouTube actually records every video that you’ve ever watched. This is used to help with recommendations on your home page, and also show you what videos you have already watched, which can be very ...

Why Does YouTube Save Watch History? YouTube is essentially a content discovery platform. Therefore, it depends on algorithms to curate and recommend content to its customers (i.e., viewers). YouTube ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

We all have our guilty pleasures, especially when it comes to videos on YouTube whether it be SpongeBob SquarePants clips, PewDiePie streams or basic cooking tutorials. If you’d rather not suffer the ...