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
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.