Watch How To Stop YouTube Tracking Your Activities On Your Phone

JAKARTA - Unknowingly, when you use any social media app, they will track your activity. No exception to YouTube.

YouTube uses website cookies and other tracking technologies to gather information about your activities on its site, including information such as the videos you watch, comments you leave, ads you click on, and much more.

This information then helps YouTube adjust the experience and shows you recommended videos to the ads in the app.

Maybe you are familiar, when you watch videos on YouTube, you will see related videos afterward. This is because YouTube uses your activity data to display content that you find interesting to you.

Similarly, if you look at ads on YouTube, it's because YouTube considers you a good target for certain products or services.

How to Stop YouTube from Tracking Your Activities

Fortunately, you can disable the YouTube activity tracking feature on any device you are currently using. Follow these steps to stop tracking YouTube.

You can also delete the history of existing YouTube shows by tapping Delete old activities after Separating your history. This will remove all the videos you've watched from your YouTube history.

These steps apply to YouTube apps on Android and iOS devices. The steps may be slightly different on other devices, but the overall process should be the same.