How to block YouTube homepage recommendations
Block only the YouTube home page with a homepage-only pattern rule and land on your Subscriptions instead. Search and videos keep working.
What the video shows
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In Redirect, add a pattern rule for the YouTube home page only, and point it at your Subscriptions page.
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Want fewer Shorts too? Add a second rule for youtube.com/shorts.
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Now opening YouTube takes you straight to the channels you chose, not the algorithm.
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Search, videos and your subscriptions all keep working as normal.
Read the transcript
You open YouTube for one video, and the homepage feed picks the next ten. Here is how to skip it. In Redirect, add a pattern rule for the YouTube home page only, and point it at your Subscriptions page. Want fewer Shorts too? Add a second rule for youtube.com/shorts. Now opening YouTube takes you straight to the channels you chose, not the algorithm. Search, videos and your subscriptions all keep working as normal. Get Redirect at heyredirect.com.
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