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by AlphaCerium 1014 days ago
Personally I use UnHook to completely hide all recommendations, merch/music/offers/etc. ads, replace the default homepage with the subscriptions page and generally clean the UI:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

In addition, I use the Stylus extension with a custom stylesheet to restore the UI to the roughly pre-2016 look. This has allowed me to essentially treat my Youtube experience as a RSS feed viewer, which I feel is a much healthier experience.

However, by doing this you do lose out on the discovery factor that Youtube is known for.