TubeVault Preserving YouTube's early history
  1. TubeVault
  2. Overview
    1. Features
      1. Hide View Count
      2. Channel Hiding
      3. noindex
      4. Recommend Itself
      5. Redirects
    2. Validation
      1. Channel IDs
      2. Incremental IDs
      3. Video IDs

Recommend Itself

This is an extremely rare feature that is only enabled for certain Enterprise/Government YouTube channels. It restricts all recommendations for a channels videos to be from that channel itself. It's suspected that this feature was released to prevent porn being displayed in a channel's video recommendations to appeal to advertisers, which was a big problem in 2008.

This feature does not work on YouTube shorts.

Playlist Recommendations Bug

There is currently a bug where unlisted videos from channels with this feature sometimes show playlists: