How to Completely Block the YouTube Homepage Feed
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
There are two ways to get rid of YouTube's Home feed with Ultimate Adblocker. In its YouTube settings, "Hide Home page videos" leaves the Home page empty apart from the search bar and menu, and "Open Subscriptions instead of Home" takes you to the channels you follow whenever you open youtube.com. YouTube can also do it itself: if you turn off watch history and don't have much past history, it stops showing recommendations on the Home page.
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