How to turn off and delete your YouTube watch history Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeMany app homepages have gotten incredibly busy, filled with suggestions and ads, many based on your previous searches or stuff you’ve read / written / watched in the past. YouTube is certainly no exception — in fact, it’s one of the worst offenders — but recently, Google’s video service announced that user…

No, Ubisoft won’t delete your game-filled accounts, it claims Image: UbisoftUbisoft now says it will not delete your games just because you didn’t sign in often enough. “Accounts that include purchased PC games are not eligible for deletion,” Ubisoft senior corporate communications manager Jessica Roache tells The Verge. Last week, a tweeted screenshot of a Ubisoft email put gamers in something of a panic…

How to Delete Your Account Now That Elon Musk Has Ruined Twitter Twitter has had a hell of a year. Elon Musk took over, fired a ton of people, destroyed the validity and integrity of Twitter verification, considered selling your location data and phone number, publicized everyone’s private Circles, allowed hate speech and misinformation to grow and fester, and blocked DMs by… Read more…

You Can Automatically Delete Trackers From iPhone URLs Over the past couple of years, Apple has made positive strides when it comes to internet privacy. It automatically blocks cross-website cookies now, making it harder for ad networks to track you across different sites. But cookies are not the only way networks, or websites, can keep tabs on you: They can do it with… Read more…

LPT: Delete TikTok Over about a year of using tiktok I found myself more and more drawn to it throughout the day. It started with self control and suddenly it started taking out a huge chunk of my life. It got to the point where I couldn’t focus on a TV show without suddenly realizing I was on my phone scrolling and completely ignoring what I was watching. That go…

How to Delete Threads Without Losing Your Instagram If you’ve started using Threads and found it wanting, you’re in for a rude awakening: As it stands, you can’t delete your Threads account without also deleting your Instagram account (although Meta is apparently “looking into it”). That is how closely entwined Meta’s new social media network really is with Instagram.… Read more…

Want to Delete Your Threads Profile? Then Delete Your Instagram Account, Says Meta Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, has officially launched. But users thinking of installing the social media app just to check it out should be aware that you can’t delete your Threads profile without also deleting your Instagram account. Meta describes Threads as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app,” and there’s purpose in that prec…

“Delete” on Netflix Wow what an amazing and well written show! It’s Thai but the dubs are well done and the production is amazing. Story is also top notch. Plot revolves around a girl finding a phone that deletes whoever’s picture is taken, with the caveat that if the one who took the picture is eventually also deleted, anyone that person deleted comes back. Not a…