YouTube doesn’t do recommendations very well. Instead, it’s more like a shallow decision tree. To do a soft reset, clear your watch and search history. If you want to end up in the same place as before, choose 1-3 videos from the same creators and then YouTube will fill your feed with the rest of the creators from your previous history automatically.
If you accidentally clear your history while on a remote WiFi network, and want to restore your old decisions, then connect to your usual WiFi network and videos will be heavily weighted towards your original recommendations.
YouTube recommendations are not very deep and appear to use IP address as a significant feature regardless of whether you’ve cleared your history.
If you accidentally clear your history while on a remote WiFi network, and want to restore your old decisions, then connect to your usual WiFi network and videos will be heavily weighted towards your original recommendations.
YouTube recommendations are not very deep and appear to use IP address as a significant feature regardless of whether you’ve cleared your history.