Google optimizes recommendations to be the most engaging videos. Their ideal recommendation sets in motion the brain's automatic response to click — regardless if you are interested or not. Persistent exposure to these suggestions results in a waste of your time. So download this add-on and remove them as you please!

Available for install here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-youtube-s-suggestions/

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to the development of this add-on, the following commands should get you started with a dev environment.

$ git clone https://github.com/emumoo/remove-youtube-suggestions.git
$ cd remove-youtube-suggestions
$ npm install --global web-ext
$ web-ext run

The commands above will open Firefox with the current state of the add-on installed. https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/getting-started-with-web-ext/

If you'd like to support the development and maintenance of this software, donate here. Thanks!