Subscribing to channels makes recommendations worse, not better. What I've found is that logging out of YouTube and aggressively deleting cookies while browsing

Subscribing to channels makes recommendations worse, not better. What I've found is that logging out of YouTube and aggressively deleting cookies while browsing videos from external sites like reddit is the best way to watch content on YouTube. The problem is that their recommendation engine is a feedback loop that is really bad at showing you anything new.