Any way to turn off "you may like" youtube

[Kenpachi219]

Is there any way to turn off the you may like search suggestions on Youtube?

[Electric Cupcake]

Not really.

The algorithm and "user engagement" are the neon god they made. You can block youtube from setting any cookies, and use blocktube to hide more egregious unwanted channels from search results, and even dig into uBlock Origin and uMatrix's advanced expressions to block certain CSS elements like the "people are also watching" box in the search results feeds.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Where are you seeing this at?

[Pocahawtness]

I share your irritation.

I hate these predictive algorithms, both on Youtube and stores like Amazon. They are annoyingly inaccurate and mostly seem to suggest what you have already watched or bought. Amazon keep annoying me with Dried Mango. I can't for the life of me think why they think I would like to buy some of that. They also seem to think I own a company (which I don't) and play a guitar (which I don't) and go diving (which I don't) and wear giant oversized jumpers (which I don't) and want inkjet refills (I don't have an inkjet printer).

I did actually phone Amazon and ask them to stop it, they said that many customers complain of the same thing, but Amazon won't stop it.

[Kenpachi219]

It appears on the Youtube search bar at times , on my phone its sometimes accompanied by a flame emoji on some results that i guess are hot at the current moment, the recommended search results don't always come up just randomly when clicking the search bar, and seem to be unrelated to anything i watch just popular searches. I didn't have this issue until recently, haven't downloaded any extensions or anything sketchy either.

[AmaiAmai]

Turn off watch history? On a phone you can just use an alternate client.

[ˢᵈˣ FatCat]

i once free from the corporate grasph by accidentally wipe my history from google, and entire months no more suggestion or ads like that ...aaaaand its back , they always back,

[A&A]

"People also watch"
"You may like"
I dislike both and don't care.

Just subscribe to the channels you like and watch videos from the subscription section?

[r.linder]

Use FreeTube, it's a private YouTube client that does away with a lot of the junk people hate

https://freetubeapp.io

Once you sub to channels your main feed is almost entirely things from those channels

[Sigma957]

Adblock it.

[Trout]

TubeMod lets you hide just about any part of the website you want. it's an extension for chrome and firefox

[DevaVictrix]

I don’t know how but all I get when I go to YouTube is a black page with a YouTube search at the top… I have private browsing as default, brave browser and whatever features protonvpn add.