My policy always was YouTube only allowed for searched content (or subscribed I suppose, cant do that without logging in though), no recommendations or other passive watching. Not really possible to implement in practice though. Disabling autoplay and such can only do so much, and the new “shorts” thing really threw a wrench into it.
Found a specialised safari content blocker that seems to block most of it though.
Found a specialised safari content blocker that seems to block most of it though.