Probably an unpopular opinion, but I instead installed an extension to force shorts to play as normal videos. Some channels have shorts worth watching (imo), but this prevents endless scrolling through short after short, I have to intentionally choose to watch them by clicking on the specific thumbnail, every time.
I find it a decent compromise.
YouTube Shorts Normal Player
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-normal-player/
“BuT mAnIfEsT v3 wIlL pRoTeCt UsErS fRoM mAlIcIoUs ExTeNsIoNs.”
MV3 is clearly an adblocker sabotage op by Google, it shouldn’t even be disputed at this point. The sooner people understand this the better.
Everything google does at this point is to squeeze pennies from their revenue streams. They have become destiny manifested for enshittification.
You can just uBlock the thing on the front page.
If your browser recently tried killing uBlock - switch.
I’ve been able to nix so many intrusive web elements with the ublock picker tool, often without leaving a trace due to modern web design practices. The YouTube shorts shelf is one such case, and it’s shocking how well it worked!
A Chrome extension titled “Hide YouTube Shorts,” used by 100,000 people, was recently discovered to secretly collect users’ browser activity, raising serious concerns about user privacy on Google Chrome Web Store.
youtube shorts deflector?
