Back in April, I watched dozens of YouTube videos about Budapest before traveling there. When I returned home, my YouTube home page was still full of Budapest videos, and although I haven’t clicked on any since then, I still get them in my recommendations to this day. The same happened when I obsessed over lawnmowers before buying one, and the Ninja Woodfire grill before I splurged on it. YouTube keeps recommending videos for things I was momentarily intrigued by, which hides the videos I’m always interested in.
Like many users before, I tried switching to incognito for these random searches to stop them from ruining my algorithm, but incognito mode on YouTube is highly restricted (for a reason). It’s not age-verified, it doesn’t allow me to create playlists or save history, and most crucially, it doesn’t benefit from any YouTube Premium benefit. So even though I pay for YouTube, I have to watch long and annoying ads each time I go incognito.
