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Same here. I completely blocked myself from accessing to YouTube on my smartphone and MacBook, just because of the shorts. This stuff is so addictive that I couldn't avoid it in my free time for dozens of minutes every single time I've opened youtube.

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Perhaps too late for you unless you open a new account, but I seriously recomend everyone here to never ever click on a YouTube short while logged in.

YouTube will proceed to show that content down your throat and if you are like most people you will let it. It will make your experience miserable though.

I've found quite effective blocking channels and actively informing yt "don't show me more like this"

I guess I'm lucky that the algorithm associates me with a very different crowd that I want to avoid at all costs.

All I get is Family Guy, sigma grindset nonsense, and military stuff. I hate all of those.

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