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disable Youtube history and no more shorts or AI suggested content. It quickly becomes a useful tool since you can see channels you subscribe to or if you are interested in a subject you have to search for it instead of getting pulled in the AI suggested contents as soon as you open the app.

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THANK YOU so much for this. I'd spend some time researching how to disable YouTube shorts only to come to the conclusion that I had to use a different client (I picked NewPipe, but faced frequent issues with playback and I ended up having to click out to YouTube 90% of the time anyway)

I've disabled YouTube history now and it's almost exactly what I'd hoped for. Shorts are disabled, no 'feed', no suggestions, just my subscriptions. I owe you a beer.

My pleasure, I went down that rabbit hole myself until I saw a comment in reddit that helped me to make youtube the way I like it. I am just passing it forward and glad to hear it helped you.

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