1. Watch videos you want to see

2. Click the dots > Not Interested in videos you don't

3. Enjoy your tailored feed with only stuff you want to see!

My YouTube algorithm is fantastic. I never see politics because if I want to watch a political video, I open it in a private window

Turn off all history tracking for youtube (disables all recommendations). Rely solely on your subscriptions

Keep ignoring the videos and choosing "don't recommend this channel", eventually they will diminish.

My shorts feed cleaned up eventually like this.

YT wants to keep you watching YT, so:

1. stop watching rage bait videos
2. watch only videos you want on your feed
3. thumbs up videos you want more of
4. "not interested" videos you dont want
5. hide users that post rage bait material
6. 66 😈

Do you have a yt account?

If so, curate your watch history.

I have done it for at least a decade, as soon as I watch something outside my sphere of Tech, History, Electronics, Transportation, Gaming, Amateur Radio, Lego, cool old objects, Acheology, Car, Programming, Long form documentaries, and similar videos I delete it from my YT history.

This has a huge impact, it feels sort of as if you constantly need to fight for your balance on a knife's edge, falling either way will massacre your yt feed.

I'd be happy to post what channels I subscribe to if you want to get started

To keep YT under control: Firefox is my web browser, with the uBlock Origin extension installed. So, all Shorts/Suggestions, 'News' and 'Related content' are now automatically removed from YT '(easy to achieve with uBlock Origin when using Firefox).

😍🥰 Firefox + uBlockOrigin

And whenever Google/YT suggests me some turd content, I dislike it and ask it to not suggest the channel/content anymore.

In the end, my feed is mostly made of stuff I enjoy watching, with so little noise that it can not be considered an issue.

When a video pops up that you find upsetting or irrelevant, click on the "Not interested" option. You'll have the chance to provide feedback on why you don't like the video. This helps YouTube understand your preferences better and refine future suggestions.

Stop clicking on them. YT shows it to you because it has seen you open them and watch a chunk of the video. The algorithm is dumb and can't tell whether you watch because you like it or hate watch them. It just knows you make engagement and revenue whenever it shows you that, so it does it more.

Go into your watch history and delete all of the rage inducing videos. YouTube generates recommendations directly from your watch history (as well as subscriptions etc).

Then subscribe to channels you really like that don’t enrage you! I highly recommend hobby-focused and science-based channels. There are tons of them out there and they have great content!

I watch gaming and science stuff and my feed is filled with gaming and science stuff.

Safest way is to block chanels. It's a bit of a constant work, but at least I avoid falling twice for the same idiot.

Stay within your sub box. If you want to watch recommended, stay within the video you are watching right now.

Use a different YouTube client. Free tube for the desktop, new pipe for Android.

That way you control your feed completely and your recommendations. You don't get to see the rage algorithmic baiting

Personally I prefer not to be fed by the algorithm. I bookmarked 'subscriptions', check for new ones and if there aren't any I go do something else.

On a video in a video list page there should be a "..." menu next to the title. It has options for "hiding" the video and "don't recommend channel". I can't comment on how effective those are, but they might give the algorithm some hints about what you want to watch.

In addition, if you have stuff on your watch history that you don't want to see more of, you can go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and remove them. Allegedly that stops them being used to decide what videos are recommended.

I use Newpipe to anonymously access subscriptions and nothing but. Bonus is you can download it locally as video or 160kbps .opus

Use Newpipe.

Subscribe to creators you like instead of just watching random shit?

Sponsorblock, ublock origin(don’t use chrome), and Unhook are nice browser extensions to help remove much of the bullshit.

I use YouTube almost exclusively for ASMR, metal forging, and engineering disaster documentaries. That's all my recommended feed is now. YouTube wants you to watch things on there and keep watching them, the algorithm really doesn't care what you watch to do that. The more you watch non-political stuff and avoid/immediately click away from political stuff, the more it will recommend non-political stuff.

Find a healthy hobby out-of-doors.

Subscribe to the channels you like, tell Youtube to stop reccing outrage-mongers

I have a question

Why is election stuff rage inducing? Like what’s an example of a thumbnail you would see that would induce rage?

Clear or curate (remove anything political) your watch history, start liberally (hue hue) blocking shit. Install BlockTube. (uBO and SponsorBlock are also a given, just slightly less on topic)

this is radical suggestion, but maybe dont use youtube? its working for me.

I had to clear my history because all I was getting was jujutsu kaisen and none of my subscription stuff was coming through.