Disable your YouTube search and watch history. Disabling history will also disable YouTube homepage recommendations and YouTube shorts. You can watch videos by

Disable your YouTube search and watch history. Disabling history will also disable YouTube homepage recommendations and YouTube shorts. You can watch videos by searching or videos from subscribed channels (sorted by new). This has saved me countless hours. I have also deleted Twitter and decided that I don't need so much news updates about things that I may or may not care.