An alternative is to just block YouTube recommendations on the client. You can use the 'My Filters' feature of uBlock. See https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax for details. Personally, I get along just fine with something like the following:

    youtube.com##ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer
    youtube.com##ytd-comments
    youtube.com##ytd-two-column-browse-results-renderer