My god i cant find anything unless i type out an exact name of the video, recommendations under currently watched videos and just in general are the same no matter what. It feels like a lottery when you hope that youtube will bless you with content that you were searching for. Im aware that im ranting but i just cant with it anymore. All they had to do is just leave things how they were and not gut an algorithm that worked just fine before. I recently used bilibili and the contrast is painful. Like WHAT??? A related but not seen before video/thumbnail??? Under a video of the same nature??? What a brilliant idea!!!
Here are the add-ons I use that make YouTube a functional site for me.
Unhook https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recommended-videos/
Channel Blocker (especially if you want to blacklist certain types of channels or videos from appearing in your algorithm feeds.) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-cleaner/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
SponsorBlock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
uBlock Origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
Or if you don’t wanna go through the hassle of installing add-ons. You can instead use Piped which has ad-block and SponsorBlock built-in.