[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

I mostly see content that similar to the things I watch(lot of sci-com, some gaming stuff, some sports stuff, a fair share of chess content) The only offputting stuff I get recommended is these AI generated video essays with nonsense claims masquerading as scicom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-pztYXH8k

Depresses me that this channel has over 100k subscribers...

But I've never been recommended gross-out stuff. I have history enabled because otherwise all I get recommended is videos I've already seen.

One thing I would recommend is disabling autoplay. I found recommendations improved markedly when the only videos I even start watching are ones I decided to. And sometimes with autoplay on I'd pass out in front of the TV and wake up to some wild shit, and get stranger recommendations because of it. But still not getting a bunch of gore or gross stuff.

[shmeeed]

Disabling autoplay is paramount.

I've once tuned into my Chromecast to find my tablet had been autoplaying for a week and was in the middle of a long streak of middle-eastern folk music with guys playing the flute and dancing in a tent. Thankfully, the tablet has its own YT account, so my main never gut spammed with the corresponding recommendations.

[Suppafly]

Turn off downloading too. Every time I get a new phone, the youtube setting to downvote videos that I might be interested in somehow gets re-enabled. Caught it trying to download like a gig of random things just in case I wanted to watch them on my phone later.