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How YouTube recommendations work

Explains recommendation inputs such as watch activity, searches, subscriptions, and Not interested feedback, plus watch-history controls for homepage recommendations.

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Recommendations Choose recommendations when the system ranks a small set of likely useful items from behavior, context, similarity, popularity, rules, or model output. Opening a recommendation navigates to that item or action and records the event according to the disclosed analytics and personalization rules. YouTube explains recommendation signals such as watch activity, searches, subscriptions, and Not interested feedback.

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