For my Zelda mutes, I just set them up so they go away after 30 days. By then, I suspect I’ll have beaten the game and will want to see whatever ridiculous shenanigans players have gotten themselves into.
YouTube often recommends new videos that are related to previous videos you’ve watched. That means that, if you’re like me and have eagerly consumed every minute of Tears of the Kingdom prerelease footage you can find, YouTube might suggest a video of a boss fight or story spoiler uploaded by someone who has a leaked version of the game because it thinks you might be interested in it. (I am interested, YouTube. Just not right now!)
To help prevent that, I’d recommend clearing your YouTube watch history of anything pertaining to the thing you’re trying to avoid. On the web, start at the homepage, click the three lines menu > History. Then, on the mobile app, use the Library tab to access History. From there, you can search your watch history and selectively delete videos as you see fit. I’ve searched for things like “Zelda” and “tears,” for example, and removed all of the videos that came up.
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You can also tell YouTube which types of recommended content you don’t want to see. When looking at a suggested video on the homepage or in a sidebar, click the three dots button and then click on Not interested. And if there’s a certain channel you want to avoid entirely, click on Don’t recommend channel in that same menu.
Trolls love to hang out in comments and replies, where it’s easy for them to spoil information and secrets. In my case, I’m currently wary of anything about the Zelda franchise or Tears of the Kingdom, and I think I’ve already accidentally stumbled across a couple of spoilers while scrolling deep in some Reddit threads.