# YouTube video tracking: how to disable events

**URL:** <https://community.piwik.pro/t/youtube-video-tracking-how-to-disable-events/748>\
**Category:** Data collection and tags\
**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/youtube-video-tracking-how-to-disable-events/748 "2022-06-17T09:34:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![GerritN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@GerritN](https://community.piwik.pro/u/GerritN)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/youtube-video-tracking-how-to-disable-events/748/1 "2022-06-17T09:34:23Z")

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I’ve installed the new YouTube tracking to compare it to the old code.  
On our website we’ve disabled some events to be tracked. We only register “play” and a “75%” progress.  
How can I disable Event action “watched”?

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**Author:** ![kuba](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/kuba/32/7_2.png) [@kuba](https://community.piwik.pro/u/kuba)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/youtube-video-tracking-how-to-disable-events/748/2 "2022-06-20T10:03:14Z")

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Hi. Currently it’s not possible to disable certain event types for the video tracking tag. Based on your feedback, I’ll fill in a feature request to the product team handling that.

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**Author:** ![GerritN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@GerritN](https://community.piwik.pro/u/GerritN)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/youtube-video-tracking-how-to-disable-events/748/3 "2022-06-20T13:00:22Z")

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Thanks. for the feature request, it would be nice if we would know which aspects of the play are tracked (“load”, “play”, “pause”, etc.) and which of them we can turn on or off.  
For now I will stick to the custom YouTube tracker tag.