uBlock Origin has custom filters you can use. I'm guilty of the exact same thing (just not the same sites). Here's a sample of what I use: ||youtube.com/|$do

uBlock Origin has custom filters you can use. I'm guilty of the exact same thing (just not the same sites). Here's a sample of what I use: ||youtube.com/|$document,xhr ||youtube.com/?pbj*|$document,xhr The first blocks YT entirely. The second blocks URL loads (if you load the URL directly) AND SPA redirects. I mostly use these to use YT only for content I subscribe to and avoid the algorithms by impulse or accident. Note that not all SPAs work the same, so you'd have to do some digging. For example, 9Gag doesn't redirect from the same API endpoint but instead uses payload data, so it's more difficult to block that. You can still block direct pageloads, but not SPA redirects, so for sites like that you may want to just block the entire domain. I have a small list of content I try to avoid using this, mostly Reddit subs and "main" pages like r/all or r/popular. With this in mind, my ideal YT & reddit feeds are only content I explicitly want to see. Else, I'd recommend a feed curator like Feedly. You can set up custom site feeds and so you'll only see those. I started using it after Firefox killed its RSS. This way there's no algorithm except popularity of a given link from a feed, not what is on the feed at all. So the onus of balance is still on you, but way easier.