If you’re an avid YouTube user, you’re likely familiar with the suggested channels tab. YouTube aggregates your search and watch history and uses it to curate a channel recommendation list.
Sometimes, YouTube relies on data from its affiliated apps and web browsers like Chrome and Google Search to track your activities and searches and use it for your YouTube recommendations.
If you don’t like the channel suggestions you’re receiving, you can remove them so your recommendations better reflect your taste.
There are several ways to remove recommended channels on YouTube. The easiest method is to remove a video of the recommended channel from your home page. Navigate to YouTube and log into your account. Hover over the video you want to remove from your recommended channels list. Click the three dots and select “Don’t Recommend channel.”
This post overviews channel recommendations and covers various ways to remove recommended channels on YouTube.
Overview of Channel Recommendations on YouTube
YouTube tracks activities like your watch list, search history, and channels you subscribe to create a custom channel recommendation list. However, it’s common to find recommendations for channels you’re not interested in.
For example, you may have found a new channel suggestion on your home page and clicked on it to see what the creator is about.
After reviewing their channel, YouTube’s algorithm will suggest similar channels you can watch even if you might not have liked the channel.
In such cases, managing your recommendation and search results can help refresh your list so you get suggestions for the channels you want.
Next, we’ll cover various ways to remove recommended channels on YouTube.
Step-by-Step Guide to Removing Recommended Channels on YouTube
There are several ways you can change or influence YouTube’s recommended channels.
Method #1: Remove Recommended Channels From Your Home Page
Follow the steps below to remove recommended channels from your home page.
- Access YouTube and log into your account.
- Hover over a video’s title from the recommended channel.
- Click on the three vertical dots next to the video’s title.
- Click the “Don’t recommend channel” option on the popup menu.
- Refresh your YouTube homepage.
After that, all the recommended videos from that YouTube channel will disappear.
Method #2: Removing a Video From Your Watch History
Because YouTube’s algorithm creates channel recommendations based on videos you watch, deleting specific videos from the watch list can help the algorithm relearn and remove particular channels from your suggestions. Here’s how to do it.
- Access YouTube and log into your account on your PC.
- Click on the menu icon (three stacked lines) at the upper-left corner of your screen.
- Click History. A menu will appear on the right-side panel of your screen.
- Ensure the blue indicator is on the “Watch history” tab.
- Videos you’ve watched will appear at the center of your screen.
- Scroll down the list until you find the video related to the channel recommendations you’re receiving.
- Click on the “X” icon at the upper-right corner of the video window to remove it from the list.
Method #3: Clear the Entire Watch History
If you have too many channel suggestions that you don’t like, deleting your entire watch history can help clear all the data influencing the recommendations. Here’s how to do it.
- Access YouTube and log into your account on your PC.
- Click on the menu icon (three stacked lines) at the upper-left corner of your screen.
- Click “History.” A menu will appear on the right-side panel of your screen.
- Click on “Clear all watch history.”
- A new window will appear on the screen.
- Click “Clear watch history” to confirm.
Without a watch history, the YouTube algorithm will not have any data on preferred content. From here, you can ensure your YouTube searches and watch list is on topics and channels you like so your channel recommendations can reflect that.
Summary
YouTube channel recommendations are based on several factors, such as your search and watch history and YouTube-affiliated browser activities.
Suppose you receive recommendations for channels you don’t like. In that case, you can remove the video from your home page and then select the option not to receive recommendations from that channel.
Alternatively, delete a specific video from your watch list. If these don’t work or you have too many channel recommendations, delete your watch history.
