YouTube History Cleanup

One-click history delete, Not interested / Don't recommend channel buttons, grayscale thumbnails, and playback speed buttons.

Keeps your YouTube watch history tidy so your recommendations stay clean. One-click delete on your youtube history page Detailed description One stray click on a junk video and YouTube's recommendations are wrecked for days. The algorithm doesn't forget. To keep your feed clean you have to keep your watch history clean — and YouTube makes that needlessly painful. YouTube History Cleanup fixes that. It surfaces an always-visible delete button on every history item and adds two bulk actions: wipe an entire channel from your history in one click, or clear an entire shorts shelf at once. The recommendation algorithm follows your history, so cleaning history cleans the feed. WHAT IT ADDS • Always-visible delete button on every video row • Always-visible delete button on every short • "Delete all from this channel" with confirmation dialog — wipes every item from a given creator in one click • "Delete all shorts in this group" — clears an entire shorts shelf at once • Works on the standard /feed/history page, including items appended as you scroll HOW IT WORKS The extension reads each history item's feedbackToken from the page (the same token YouTube's own UI uses) and sends a signed delete request to YouTube's official feedback endpoint. Same API, same auth, same result — just without the clicks. PRIVACY • No accounts • No analytics • No telemetry • No remote servers • No data collection of any kind Runs entirely in your browser. The only network traffic is the delete requests sent directly to youtube.com on your behalf. Privacy policy: https://themidnightgospel.github.io/yt-history-cleanup/privacy PERMISSIONS • Runs only on https://www.youtube.com/feed/history • Host permission for youtube.com is required to call the official delete endpoint OPEN SOURCE Source: https://github.com/themidnightgospel/yt-history-cleanup Issues and feature requests welcome. LIMITATIONS • Only the watch history page is supported. Search history, comment history, and other Google activity are unaffected. • YouTube can change their DOM or endpoint at any time and break the extension; updates ship as breakage is discovered.