I hate using their web interface. I use FreeTube so I only see things I subscribe too without recommendations. I made a tool that downloads videos (frontend for yt-dlp):
https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/arcstreamsium
and then I watch them in a frontend I wrote for mpv:
https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/mpvbuddy/
Makes YouTube way more tolerable, and helps me keep an archive to fight YouTube censorship