I recommend people to try out the Youtube Enhancer browser extension. I always get baffled when I used youtube on mobile, search is near useless now because of all the crap they throw in the middle of the search results. But beyond that the experience is just very bad.

A few features I like about it:

- Allows you to hide most engagement features like shorts, comments, related videos, etc

- Allows you to set a default playback speed and custom buttons to change playback speed with one click.

- Setting the default video size to "theater mode" (takes all the browser window above the fold, but without going full screen), so you don't see all that crap around the video you just clicked on