i just use temporary containers on firefox so my cookies are always empty, i'm sure they still track me internally but youtube suggestions seem unaffected by my usage history
usually the solution is recompiling it, LD_PRELOADing older libraries or using chroot. Since linus never breaks userspace this can actually provide 100% compatibility.
the difference is that LLMs spit out actual bs quite frequently while forums are usually simply outdated or smth