YouTube History Cleanup

About

Always-visible delete buttons on YouTube watch history. Bulk-delete by channel or shorts shelf. No accounts, no telemetry, no servers.                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
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  YouTube History Cleanup makes pruning your watch history fast.
                                               
  YouTube's stock UI hides each item's delete button behind a hover-then-click-the-menu dance, and offers no way to bulk-remove a creator or a shorts shelf without clearing everything. This extension fixes that.

  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.