Turning Off “Recommended Videos”
Posted by terrepruitt on April 24, 2017
Ahh, just a quick post today as it seems that the day flew by and I didn’t even notice. It started out good this morning. I thought I was doing good time-wise, but then the next thing I know it, my cat, the little one, is whining. I thought, “What? Why are you whining?” And I looked at the clock and it was a few minutes after 6:00. We feed them at 6:30, but when she whines for food, I will feed her because she is the little one that could use to gain a few pounds. I have noticed that she will whine before feeding time and if I don’t feed her she will eat the dry food. Then when I do put the wet food down she is not hungry and the other cat will eat it all the wet food. So I stopped what I was doing to feed them. I am feeling very behind (in regards to my to-do list) and it is already 6:30! So . . . just a quick post. How do you feel about “recommended videos” on Youtube? When I am on Youtube and I am watching something, I don’t mind them so much because often times it is something interesting. Plus there is the option not to watch, of course. But I don’t care for them on my blog. I mean, I post something that I want to share with you, but I don’t necessarily want to share the recommended video. I don’t even know what it will be. It could be something I don’t really want on my blog. So anyway . . . if you are posting a video from Youtube into your WordPress blog you can turn off the recommended video, if you want.
If you don’t want the recommended videos to show up after your video is finished playing when you embed a video in your WordPress blog, you just have to add ?rel=0 at the end of your video URL like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJOGgGHb_Xk?rel=0
Not sure if you are interesting in turning recommended videos off when you include a Youtube video in one of your blog posts, but I thought I would share with you in case you might be. Perhaps you hadn’t thought about it before. Well, now that you know you have to option to turn it off, perhaps you can think about it and decide.
What are your thoughts? Do you care? Would you turn it off now that you know you can?
Terre Pruitt's Blog 
frankhubeny said
It is good to know that is possible to do. I have only put one YouTube video in a post and I didn’t think about the recommended videos after that. I wonder if the recommendations are based on YouTube knowing who clicked the video when it is embedded on a blog page?
LikeLiked by 1 person
terrepruitt said
Yeah, I don’t know what the “recommendations” are based on. I always kind of assumed they were based on the video that you watched. So if you were watching a dancing dog video the recommendations would show other things like that, but . . . I think YouTube might just base recommendations on key words . . . not sure . . . but I know that I have been on other blogs before and some video recommendations came up that made me think I would like to have recommendations turned off. Could be a business person posts a video and the recommendations are for a competitors product . . . 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person