no-polymer-youtube-home.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         No Polymer Youtube Homepage
// @namespace    https://gist.github.com/jettero
// @version      0.3
// @description  Google keeps pusing their new shitty homepage layout with 4 recommendations. This is clearly to make advertising computation easier, but: no thanks. Until they break their classic view, that's how ima look at it.
// @author       jettero
// @match        https://www.youtube.com/*
// @downloadURL  https://gist.github.com/jettero/9ffdfa504d6f1d115fe9ae0cdb1ba186/raw/no-polymer-youtube-home.user.js
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

const fixme = (event) => {
    console.log(`fixme ${event.type} location ${window.location.href}`);
    if ( window.location.href === "https://www.youtube.com/" ) {
        window.location.href = "https://www.youtube.com/?disable_polymer=1";
    }
};

fixme(false);

(function() {
    'use strict';
    window.addEventListener('pageshow', fixme, false);
    window.addEventListener('pagehide', fixme, false);
    window.addEventListener('unload', fixme, false);
    window.addEventListener('load', fixme, false);
    window.addEventListener('click', fixme, false);
})();