[sogen]

If you disable History, it automatically removes Recommendations across your devices.

[the_af]

What do you get instead of recommendations? Random junk or just nothing?

I find YouTube recommendations very useful. I only get what I'm interested in or adjacent topics, no junk, no ragebait.

[sogen]

Nothing, you will get an empty start page.

[nunodonato]

The issue for me is that I really want History (sometimes I need to go back to a video I know I watched 3 weeks ago). It's bs that they need history disabled to also disable recommendations.