👉 How to delete the history of views and actions on YouTube

If there are not many videos, you can delete them in the history manually. But what if there are a lot of videos in the YouTube viewing history?

Keep our lifehack:

1. On the YouTube homepage, click on your account and go to "Settings".
2. Then click on the "History and Privacy" button.
3. Choose what you want to clear: your browsing history or search queries.

The history will be deleted from all devices, and the list of recommendations will be compiled anew based on your interests.

You can make it so that the history is not recorded at all. To do this, slide one of the sliders that are located below the "Clear Search history" button.

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🎞 How to reduce the volume of video without loss of quality

If you want to upload a video to a USB flash drive, but there is not enough space, then YouCompress service will help you. With it, you can reduce the volume to 80% without loss of video quality.

How to do it:

1. Go to the website.
2. Click "Select File" and upload the video you want to compress.
3. Click "Upload File & Compress" and wait for processing.
4. Download the video.

The only limitation is that the volume of uploaded videos should not exceed 500 MB. You won't be able to compress movies.

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👻 How to enable guest mode on Android

If you need to give your smartphone into someone else's hands for a while, then this feature will not allow a stranger to access your messages or personal files.

How to activate the mode:

1. Open "Settings".
2. Go to "Users and Accounts" and then to "Users".
3. Click on "Add Guest".
4. Select the options you want to restrict: messages, files, or specific applications.

#android #data #security

❌ How to remove pre-installed Windows 10 apps that spy on you

Windows is full of spyware programs that are practically useless and cannot be removed manually. They slow down your computer and collect your personal data. For example, Edge and Cortana store information about all your actions.

How to delete them:

1. Download the Privatezilla program, unpack the archive and run application.
2. Find the sections "Cortana" and "Pre-installed applications" in the menu.
3. Select the necessary deletion scenarios and click "Apply Selected" to make changes for the selected items.
4. If there are problems, you can undo changes. To do this, select the disabled items and click "Restore selected".

Privatezilla has many other features:
- disable surveillance through advertising identifiers;
- deny access to camera, microphone, geolocation, history for installed applications.

#windows #security

🤷 How to create a beautiful fake chat in any social network and messenger
 
There is a wonderful service FakeDetail that allows you to make fake chat for Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber and any social networks in general. You can configure everything: from the avatar of the interlocutor and the time of sending messages to the communication level and the name of the operator.
 
1. Go to https://fakedetail.com/
2. Go to the "Social media" or "Social networks" section.
3. Choose a messenger/social network.
4. Choose the necessary data: time, avatar, message text, etc.
5. Click "Download image" or "Download image".
 
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🎬 How to get the whole history of your Instagram

Instagram has an awesome feature with which you can get the entire history of your account. Upon request, the social network will give you the entire history of your Instagram — all stories, chats, photos, videos.

How to do it:

1. Go to Instagram and open "Settings".
2. Go to the "Security" section.
3. Click "Download data".
4. Enter the email address to which the data archive will be sent. It doesn't matter if it is linked to an account or not.
5. Click the "Request file" button and enter the account password in the pop-up window.

Done! Within 48 hours, you will receive a link to download a ZIP archive with your data: photos, videos, chats, stories, and others.

#instagram #lifehack #data

🔋 How to detect battery wear on Android

Each charge of your smartphone reduces the actual battery capacity. But you can monitor the battery status through special applications, as well as at least slow down battery wear.

1. Download the Accu Battery app. Now it will collect statistics and give recommendations on how to reduce battery wear.
2. We discharge the phone to 0% for several days and charge it to 100%. This is how we will determine the actual battery capacity.
3. Done! The battery status will appear in the "Capacity" section.

Accu Battery helps to monitor status of the battery, tells you about the most efficient percentage of charging battery and how long it will take to charge/discharge the smartphone.

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📱 How not to be distracted by games and social networks on your smartphone during important work

For productive work, we will use the application blocker:

1. Download and open the AppBlock application on Android (there is an alternative on iOS - AppLock).
2. Select the "Quick Lock" mode. The main menu will appear in front of us.
3. Click on the "+" in the red circle and select the applications that distract you.
4. Go back to the main menu and move the slider in the white stripe so that it turns blue. This means that the lock has been activated.

Done! If you are distracted and opened the application instead of working, a warning will appear that you do not need to do this.

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​​👻 How to make Chrome always run in incognito mode

A lifehack for paranoids: in order not to pinch Ctrl+Shift+N every time, you can always run Chrome in "Incognito" mode by default.

1. Right-click on the Chrome shortcut, then left-click on "Properties".
2. Find the "Shortcut" tab, there will be a special field containing the following line:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
3. Add "-incognito" at the end of the line to make it look like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -incognito
4. Click on "Save".

Now, every time you start the browser, you automatically enter the "Incognito" mode.

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​​📺 How to find and download an excerpt from the movie

Youtubers like to insert excerpts from movies into their videos. If you think that they download whole movies specifically for this, then you are mistaken. There is a simpler solution.

Life Hack:
There is a website with excerpts from films: https://www.playphrase.me/#/search

Just type in the right phrase and get the right passage. The text needs to be printed (Ctrl + C does not work), it must be in English, and the phrases are short (1-4 words). In the lower corner on the left there is a fragment download button, in the right - the name of the movie.

The site is also useful for those who learn English. You type in a phrase and remember how the native speakers pronounce it.

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