To get started, head to myactivity.google.com. From here you can delete everything you’ve done on Google products—things you’ve searched for, the websites you visited in Chrome, the places you went to on devices with Google Maps installed, and all of the YouTube videos you’ve watched.

You can filter down to see only your YouTube videos by clicking YouTube History then clicking Manage History.

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Want to avoid Google tracking you altogether? Look into Freetube, a free and open source application built around the idea of privacy. This application is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows computers. It stores your watch history on your computer, not in the cloud, meaning you can keep track of what you’ve watched without allowing Google to.

Read more:

Pot, J. (2025, February 17). How to reset the YouTube algorithm. Popular Science. https://www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-reset-youtube-algorithm/