YouTube
learned your
clicks, not
your taste
Your feed optimizes for what makes you click, not what you actually want to watch. See the clickbait it keeps beating you with, the channels quietly eating your week, and the exact moves that retrain it. Tell us where you’re trying to get to, and it measures how far your feed is from taking you there.
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A look inside
A real report, not a mock-up
The Takeaway
You click on shortcuts and stories, but you only finish the things that respect your time — and the gap between the two is costing you about a workday a month.
Your Profile
The Selective Deep-Diver
You don't watch YouTube — you study it. When something catches your eye you go all the way in: full videos, follow-up rabbit holes, the comment section. But you're ruthless about what earns that attention. Most things get 40 seconds and a back-button. The algorithm keeps showing you more of what you half-watched; you keep proving it wrong.
Selective
Viewing Style
39h
Time Watched
71%
Avg Completion
Time You Could Reclaim
8h
on 142 videos you abandoned early
≈ a full work day
You started 142 videos in the last 90 days and bailed within the first minute — but not before they ate roughly 8 hours of your attention in clicks, loads, and 30-second auditions. That's a full work day spent deciding things weren't worth watching.
Interest Clusters
Software & Programming
This is your real home base. High completion, long sessions, and you regularly rewatch segments — a pattern that only shows up for content you're actively learning from, not passively consuming.
What You Wanted vs What You Got
You want YouTube to make you better at building things — and to stay out of the way while you do it.
Surprises
You've watched over 38 hours of programming content in 90 days — that's more than most people spend on Netflix in a month.
+ the clickbait you fell for · your retrain-the-feed playbook · when you watch · how far your feed is from your own goals
Yours names your channels, your hours, your patterns — not these. $4.99, once.
How it works
Three steps to your mirror
Read your history
Add the free Decode My Feed extension, then hit one button here. It opens your YouTube history, reads it, and brings it straight back — no file to export or upload. Two minutes, all on your own machine. It picks up how much of each video you actually finished — the thing Google’s own export leaves out, and the reason your report knows what you abandoned, not just what you clicked.
See your stats free
Answer two quick questions about what you actually want from YouTube (or skip them), and your headline numbers come back immediately, at no cost — hours watched, completion rate, the channels that own your week. Decide on the full report after you've seen them.
Get the read
The clickbait you keep falling for, the videos you quietly finished, the channels eating your week, your viewing persona, how far your feed is from what you said you wanted — and the specific “Not interested” taps that retrain it.
On a phone, or not using Chrome?
The extension needs a desktop Chromium browser — Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera or Vivaldi. Everyone else can use Google Takeout, which works anywhere: request the export, and when Google emails you the .zip, drop it in as-is. No unzipping, no hunting for a file inside it.
Takeout can’t record what you actually finished, so that report skips the completion-based sections — and if you buy one, your second scan with the extension is free. We merge it with the timing data from your Takeout run and rebuild the full report at no extra charge.
Personalized
You decide what “a good feed” means
Before we read your history we ask two quick questions: what you feel you use YouTube for, and where you’re actually trying to get this year. Then the report measures the distance between the two. Skip them if you like — nothing else changes, and the price is the same either way.
You tell us
“I use YouTube for…”
- Learning something specific
- Unwinding after work
- Background noise
- + 5 more
“I’m working toward…”
- Learning a skill or language
- A career move or new job
- Getting my attention back
- + 5 more
Plus one optional line in your own words, if the chips don’t cover it.
Your report answers
You want YouTube to make you better at building things — and to stay out of the way while you do it.
Getting in the way
- Roughly a third of what the feed offers you midweek is productivity and reaction content you bail on inside a minute
- Finance videos that open as analysis and turn into pitches — you keep clicking, then leaving
Everyone else’s report grades your feed against nothing in particular. Yours gets graded against where you said you were going.
And the verdict lands on the algorithm, not on you — the question is whether the feed is helping you get there, not whether you’ve been disciplined enough about it.
What the report finds
What it clicks for you vs. what you actually watch
Clicked, then quit
- 10 Productivity Hacks That Changed My Life
- I Tried the Billionaire Morning Routine for 30 Days
- Why I Quit My 6-Figure Job (Story Time)
- Reacting to My Old Videos (cringe warning)
Watched to the end
- The Forgotten History of Operating Systems
- How Compilers Work — Full Course
- An Honest Look at Index Funds After 10 Years
- Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Your real preferences and your click behavior are quietly at war — and your feed is only listening to one of them.
Those are real titles from the sample report, sorted by how much of each video actually got watched. Your report names your own — then gives you the specific “Not interested” taps that stop the feed serving more of the left-hand column.
FAQ
Common questions
$4.99, once. There's no account and no subscription — you pay for the one report and that's the end of it. Your headline stats (hours watched, completion rate, your top channels) are shown for free after you upload, so you can see the real numbers from your own history before you decide whether to buy the full read.
No — every number in the report is computed from your own file, not guessed. The hours, completion rates, video counts, and channel rankings are calculated directly from your history and can't be invented. The written analysis then works from those figures, which is why it names your actual channels and topics back to you rather than describing a type.
Usually none. Our free Chrome extensionreads your history and hands it straight to the site — there's no file to export or upload. It picks up the watch-time details (how much of each video you actually watched) that a plain Google export doesn't include. A Google Takeout export works too, and we'll walk you through either one on the upload screen.
Yes. The extension runs entirely on your own machine and makes no network requests of its own — it hands your history to this site inside your own browser, and only when you ask it to. Your history is then parsed on your device, and only the watch entries needed for analysis are sent securely to our analysis service. The finished report is kept for 24 hours so you can come back to it — then everything is automatically and permanently deleted from our servers.
Yes, using Google Takeout. The extension needs a desktop Chromium browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera or Vivaldi), but Takeout works on any device: request the export on your phone, and when Google emails you the .zip, upload it here exactly as it arrived — no unzipping, no digging for a file inside it. A Takeout report skips the completion-based sections, so if you buy one, your second scan with the extension is free: we merge it with the timing data from the first run and rebuild the full report at no extra charge.
The report is built from how much of each video you actually finished, which only appears on your YouTube history page. The extensionscrolls that page, reads the progress bar under each video, and brings the result straight back here — something Google Takeout can't give you, and it takes one click.
Yes. After payment, your report is generated and emailed automatically to the address you enter at checkout. You can also download it as a PDF. The report stays available on the results page for 24 hours, then it's automatically deleted from our servers — after that, the email and your downloads are the only copies.
Yes, and you don't have to ask us. There's a delete button on the report itself: press it and our copy is destroyed immediately, along with the 24-hour link. The usual way to use it is to email the report to yourself first, download the PDF if you want one, then delete ours — so the only copies left are the ones you're holding. If you'd rather not think about it, doing nothing works too: the report is deleted automatically after 24 hours either way.
Your report shows your viewing persona, where your time actually goes, the topics you keep returning to, the gap between what you click and what you finish, and a set of behavioral patterns — things YouTube has already figured out about you, surfaced so you can see them too. If you answer the two optional questions before the analysis, it also measures your feed against what you said you wanted from it.
No — but you can, and the report gets sharper if you do. After you upload, we ask two quick questions: what you feel you use YouTube for, and what you're working toward this year. You pick from a short list of options, and there's one optional line if you want to add something in your own words. Skip the whole step and the report is still built from your history exactly as before; the price doesn't change either way. If you do answer, the report adds a section comparing what you said you wanted with what your feed actually served you — and the verdict is about the algorithm, not about your willpower.
The same thing that happens to your watch data: they're read once to write your report, then they're gone. Your answers are never written to a database, never appear in our logs, and never reach our usage analytics — we record only whether the questions were answered, never what was picked. They also aren't attached to your payment or your email address. The one thing to know: whatever you type in the optional free-text line is passed to the analysis and may be quoted back in your report, which stays retrievable for 24 hours before it's deleted — so keep anything genuinely sensitive out of it.
We analyze your most recent 90 days of history, capped at your 1,000 most recent videos. This keeps the report focused on who you are now — and keeps the analysis fast.
Large files are fine. Only your 1,000 most recent videos from the last 90 days are analyzed, so a file with years of history typically takes just a few seconds.
Your turn
Find out who YouTube thinks you are
Two minutes to export, and your headline stats come back free. Tell it where you’re headed and it grades your feed against that. The full report is $4.99, once — no account, no subscription.