Blaming the algorithm

At some point, years ago now, recommendation algorithms (YouTube especially) switched from recommending things similar to what you were already listening to and instead now recommend what you already have listened to. So listening to "The Rubberband Man" no longer suggests songs like it, by different musicians, but instead a mix of completely unrelated things you have listened to recently and perhaps a few other songs by the same artist. If your music taste is capacious enough and you have enough sources to recommend new things otherwise (I do) this is a minor issue. But it's really annoying, and it makes it hard to find genuinely new music: I am trapped in a prison of my own preferences, and Alphabet would prefer that I never make it out. (They'd also probably prefer I don't use ublock origin and could serve me ads.)

Worse, though, is that occasionally YT will tempt me with a button: "generate new recommendations different than you normally get". Friends, it is 100% racist, base right wing slop, every time; there is never any music. "You recently listened to Fela Kuti. Perhaps you'd like an hour-long talking head video about how people from Africa are genetically inferior?" Perhaps not.