Get off chrome go to Firefox. Seriously it will just take you days to adjust and basically every extension available on chrome is available as an add-on on Firefox. If you’re using a password manager it’s even easier, because Firefox supports every major password manager as well.
The best and easiest thing we can do to help reduce Google’s footprint that actually matters is to get off chrome. Their browser dominance gives them such an advantage. It’s really hard to quantify the damage they can and have wrought.
I'm not the one caring about YouTube nor Google. I don't even use them. I just find laughable hating on a company and still going through so many hops just to continue using their product. Addiction is really bad stuff...