I gave up on the recommendations completely. It has been nothing but videos I've already watched (about 90% of what I saw came from my playlists and subscriptio

I gave up on the recommendations completely. It has been nothing but videos I've already watched (about 90% of what I saw came from my playlists and subscriptions) and videos that have nothing to do with what I'm watching right now. So I did the following: - installed a plugin that redirects me from Home to Subscribtins page, effectively disabling the Home page completely - deleted all history from YouTube - disabled all possible tracking and data collection The recommened videos on the left of the video player are a lot better as a result. It sucks that these mostly focus on the author of the video but scrolling down usually reveals new content. It's not as good as what it used to be in the late 2000s but it's far better than the default settings.