Youtube suggests unlisted videos to other people.

Volodymyr

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Hello.
Recently I uploaded a very scandalous interview recording to youtube and set it to "unlisted" for a very small number of people to see. (22 people ended up seeing this video)
Soon I found out from my friends, (who never received my unlisted interview link) that this interview video was suggested to them, so they watched it.

For this reason, I had to set the video status to "Private" and now nobody can see it.
(Otherwise, my following interviewees would have seen this video and may have refused to let me interview them. I was not aware that YouTube would create such an information leak for me.)

How do I prevent YouTube from trying to promote my unlisted videos for me?
Can I have an unlisted video that would not be promoted by YouTube as "watch next" material?
How do I change the settings?

Thank you.
Happy New Year.