No matter how advanced algorithms get, none will understand your YouTube viewing preferences better than you. With that in mind, YouTube is adding a few new features that will give users more control over which videos appear in their homepage and Up Next suggestions. The changes will roll out beginning today on Android and iOS, and they'll arrive on desktop soon.
YouTube admits that it doesn't always get its suggestions right, so it will let users remove suggested channels that they don't want to watch. You'll be able to click the three-dot menu next to a video and select "don't recommend channel." YouTube will also attempt to make it easier to find content you do want. When you scroll up on your Homepage or Up Next, you'll be able to select categories related to your interests. The goal is to help users find what they're looking for faster. YouTube will also clue users into why they're seeing a particular video suggestion -- like because they viewed similar content in the past or other viewers with similar interests have liked it.
YouTube's algorithms have come under fire for everything from facilitating a "soft-core pedophilia ring" to pushing extremist content and suggesting conspiracy videos related to 9/11 misinformation, miracle cures and more. The new features don't address those issues, but at least now you have some control over what appears in your feed. If you watch one flat Earth video, you won't be subject to an endless stream of crazy.
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The process of deleting your YouTube channel is quite easy. You can delete your YouTube channel in just 10 minutes. by Karan Sharma | Updated on Dec
28, 2021 03:25 PM IST | 223.2K
How to delete your YouTube channels in few simple steps
These days everyone wants to become a YouTuber, and as a result of that many people start their own YouTube channel but after some time they realize that this is not what they wanted, and then they want to delete their YouTube channel. Many people think that it must be an extremely difficult process to delete a YouTube channel. But surprisingly the process of deleting your YouTube channel is quite easy. You can delete your YouTube channel in just 10 minutes.
So if you wanted to delete your YouTube channel then you can follow our step-by-step guide on how to delete a YouTube channel mentioned below:
Once you have successfully deleted your YouTube channel all its data such as watch time will be part of the aggregate report. But it will not be attributed to the deleted channel. Along with that your channel's URL or its name will no longer be available or searchable in YouTube analytics.
Users should note that if you are deleting your channel then it simply means that all your videos, comments, playlists, votes, and many more things will get deleted permanently and if once you have deleted your account all this data will be gone forever there is no way to recover it.