Better tailor YouTube to viewers

The YouTube home page has video suggestions. YouTube shows videos here that the service thinks the user will find interesting. The video channel does this based on videos previously viewed by the user. However, it often happens that these are not good suggestions. In order to improve this, the user can indicate that he is not interested in the video. That helps YouTube to recommend videos that better suit the user’s needs. However, to do this, the user must be logged in. This allows YouTube to link the information to the account.

To report uninteresting videos via the website, follow the steps below:

• Open the internet browser and surf to youtube.com
• Suggestions are listed under ‘Recommended’ on the homepage.
• Swipe over the title of a video you don’t find interesting.
• Click on the appeared icon with three dots .
• click on Not interested.
• It is now also possible to indicate why you are not interested. Then click on Let us know why.
• Then click on the appropriate reason and finally on Send.

On the YouTube app on iPad, iPhone or Android device, it works like this:

• Open the YouTube app.
• Tap the tab Home. Here are the recommended videos.
• Tap the three-dot icon behind the video you don’t like .
• Tap on Not interested.
• It is now also possible to indicate why you are not interested. Then tap Let us know why.
• Then tap the appropriate reason.