Tell Me Why

Hiding watched videos isn’t a built-in feature for YouTube. And every other video platform for that matter. But especially YouTube. If your website is generating years of content per hour, show me the stuff that I haven’t seen before. I $%^&ing hate your algorithms.

Why do I have to make my own uBO filters to do this? $%^& you Google.

If you’re interested in hiding watched videos from the desktop website yourself, here’s the filters I’m using:

!Remove Watched Videos From Root [youtube.com/]
www.youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer.ytd-rich-grid-renderer.style-scope:has(#progress)

!Remove Watched Videos From Search [youtube.com/results?search_query=*]
www.youtube.com##ytd-video-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope:has(#progress)

!Remove Watched Videos From Channels [youtube.com/c/*/videos]
www.youtube.com##ytd-grid-video-renderer.ytd-grid-renderer.style-scope:has(#progress)

!Removed Watched Videos From Video Sidebar [youtube.com/watch?v=]
www.youtube.com##ytd-compact-video-renderer.ytd-item-section-renderer.style-scope:has(#progress)

Also, here’s one more for when YouTube decides to put a banner that’s takes up 50% of the screen at the top of the page

!Remove Obnoxious Promotional Banner From Top of Root [youtube.com/]
www.youtube.com##.ytd-banner-promo-renderer.style-scope.ytd-banner-promo-renderer-background

YouTube desperately needs a competent UX design overhaul. I guess it could be worse though. At least it’s not Twitch.

Written on September 5, 2021