Note: When you activate the YouTube Restricted Mode, it only applies to the browser which you activated it on. As the setting states, it is not 100 percent accurate, so some videos might slip through the cracks.īy setting up Restricted Mode in your account, you're basically restructuring your account for a limited but cleaner, safer, filtered, and controlled YouTube viewing experience. YouTube created it for individuals, organizations, libraries, schools, institutions, and public establishments that want better control of contents they (or other people) wish to watch and are recommended. With Restricted Mode activated in your account, videos containing any of the above contents will be picked up by YouTube's algorithm and blocked from appearing in your account, even when you search for them.
Talking about unwanted and mature contents, YouTube classifies videos with the following contents as unwanted: Restricted Mode is a brilliant tool which YouTube uses to remove unwanted and mature contents from appearing on a user's account.