I make sure to hit not interested the second I see anything I very much don't want pop up in me feed. I don't want mine to drift towards the average feed of the lowest effort, sensationalist garbage.

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newswasboring 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Does this work? I've been doing that for some weeks now, nothing has changed about my home page.

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sitkack 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is more important to scrub your history and upvote.

You can use ublock to remove the sidebar completely

	▲	Esophagus4 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unhook also does this (among other YouTube clean-ups)

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layer8 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In case you start watching such a video (and maybe in general), it’s probably more effective to downvote it and remove it from your watch history. And when you use “not interested”, there are two “tell us why” follow-up options “already watched” and “don’t like”. Selecting the latter may be necessary for “not interested” to have a stronger effect.

I don’t know if YouTube Premium makes a difference, but I don’t see highly clickbaity thumbnails very often.