Youtube is actual trash and we have modern designers and businessmen to blame.
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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Both can be true.
Probably is..
It's getting bad. Almost unwatchable now. Google is screwed.
Yes, YouTube is absolute shit without extensions.
I think pausing your watch history will accomplish this, but then of course your watch history will be paused.
I suspect if you disabled watch history it won't remember. You can also selectively remove videos from your watch history. I'm not sure if there are separate settings for watch history and timestamp.
Playing just a few seconds may not be enough. Two minutes should be. So it determines you're actually intending to watch where you are (at the beginning).
I don't use this plugin myself, but if you're using Firefox, you might take a look at it, as it provides a bunch of browser-side configurability. I don't know whether the feature you're looking for is there, but as far as I can tell, it aims to be a pretty large bucket of pretty much every add-on YouTube feature one might want.
I was looking at it a while back for something unrelated, a UI tweak that I was hoping that it might do.
This was it! Thanks, amazing that something so simple needs a seperate plugin. You saved the night.
This can probably also disable the mini PiP player so I can die a happy dude.. :)