Doing this allows you to actually free yourself from planned distractions of certain websites, which is designed to pull in as much as attention as possible
I use Unhook for Youtube :D there are many extensions for Chrome and Firefox meant to clean out recomendations
Just saw this one yesterday on lemmy:
Removes clickbait thumbnails from YouTube and just pulls one from somewhere within the video.
Same creator as Sponsorblock, another must have for YouTube. Skips portions of the video that are basically spam, configurable to skip various parts.
And of course ublock origin for ad blocking, which also removes advertising in YouTube videos, at least for now.
Recently found Whoogle and have been enjoying it a lot. I’ve got it on an Ubuntu server, but it looks like there are public instances too. It’s a more focused, ad free, search. In the settings you can redirect to privacy focused alternatives like Libreddit as well.
