Undo "Forget about this Site" in History?

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theAxe1832
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Undo "Forget about this Site" in History?

Unread post by theAxe1832 » 2025-01-24, 19:14

Operating system: Windows 11 24H2
Browser version: 33.5.1
32-bit or 64-bit browser?: 64 bit
Problem URL: youtube
Browser theme (if not default):
Installed add-ons: Adblock Latitude and Ublock Origin
Installed plugins: (about:plugins): none

I wanted to delete a single youtube link from my history but picked "forget about this site" and now it's hiding all of youtube from my displayed history. Is there any way to reverse this?

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Re: Undo "Forget about this Stie" in History?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2025-01-24, 22:32

theAxe1832 wrote:
2025-01-24, 19:14
I wanted to delete a single youtube link from my history but picked "forget about this site" and now it's hiding all of youtube from my displayed history. Is there any way to reverse this?
No. Just like in real life, you can't "unforget" something or "undelete" something (e.g. unwipe a blackboard). You told the browser to forget about the site so it dutifully removed everything to do with that site. It's gone.
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Albert Einstein
"Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past; wisdom is of the future." -- Native American proverb
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Re: Undo "Forget about this Stie" in History?

Unread post by jqsid4 » 2025-01-26, 02:15

I've done this before and I believe I managed to retrieve the information (almost all of it) by restoring the places.sqlite file from the most recent backup.

I backup every day using the Win7 inbuilt tool. When I made this mistake I did lose the few entries in history since the backup was created but not ALL the entries for the site I messed up on.

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Re: Undo "Forget about this Stie" in History?

Unread post by back2themoon » 2025-01-27, 23:02

Doesn't YouTube track your visited videos/history? Try your luck here:

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

Don't know if this works without a Google account.

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