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The 'unhooked' browser extension fixes this whole issue by allowing the user to disable almost any element of the YouTube website.

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Stylebot works just fine, it's basically a CSS IDE in your browser, there's a graphical "basic editor" and a code editor, the CSS selector function is really useful, you can click on any CSS element on a webpage and choose what you want to do with it either through writing CSS or some basic functions(hiding, centering text etc) through the basic editor.
Alot of other extensions can be done by yourself through a couple of extensions like uBO if you use advanced features, does most of the work of other "privacy" extensions, ***monkey for userscripts(custom Javacript code) and Stylebot for cosmetic changes. The benefit is that you don't have to trust all these extensions with their permissions and it should also decrease your fingerprint.
The problem with YouTube was that the use the same element for recommendations on the home page as the video tab on channels. The most annoying part, which is the recommendations next to the video you're watching can be hidden without affecting other parts of the website.
You can disable recommendations entirely through turning off history, which happens automatically if you reject all cookies or through registering and answering "no" to all their questions(or doing it later if you accepted those for some reason)
You can bypass ID age verification by scanning other people's faces(actors, models other public people that have their face out there anyway) instead of your own. I scanned David Gandy and it accepted it, literally mogging the mass surveillance lmao. Now I'm mostly signed in to see all the videos.