Unfortunately, I can’t escape YouTube/it's recommendations. But! I watch content about privacy through LibreTube, which proxies everything through Piped, which means that Google doesn’t know what I’m watching. So it's not a big problem.
Wayland. Touchscreen support and gestures. No scaling issues. Better smoothness.
This fork is actively developed, supports gestures amd many other features. Try it!
AppManager. Super stable, feature-packed app that can do nearly everything with your apps.
AdAway. No ads in apps. At all.
Simple utilities. Just very good replacement for Google proprietary suite of apps. Good design, feature-rich, simple to use. Developer is really awesome!
Guesses: VPN, AdBlocker, Browser profile spoofer (chameleon extension f.e.), fingerprinting protection (Firefox's or from extension). If you have something from this list, try to disable it and go to site.
Configurable touchpad gestures on Plasma. And a non-nonsense gesture to open the overview effect (waiting for Plasma 6, already done :)