I watch about 20-30m per day of youtube (not counting listening to videos to put me to sleep) and I've never encountered this. The worst I have seen is cheap kn

I watch about 20-30m per day of youtube (not counting listening to videos to put me to sleep) and I've never encountered this. The worst I have seen is cheap knockoff channels with text-to-speech bot voices, which I suspect are just reading pirated textbooks to stock footage. I dislike people doing that, but there was nothing dubious about the content itself. One thing I'm very cautious about is clicking on rage-bait links from other people. My best friend likes watching dramatic cop-encounters and shares them with me, but I'm always hesitant to click because I'm afraid it will start suggesting them without ability to stop. I can't say if this will work for you, but I aggressively use the "don't show me this" and "tell us why: I don't like the video". I rarely use the "don't recommend channel" (but wouldn't hesitate to use it if I ever got suggested pseudoscience or fake-news bs).