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You click the button to hide the card of Shorts on the home page and it just says

We'll show you fewer Shorts on Home

Not "no more", but "fewer". Which means you don't get a choice, YouTube will still shove them down your throat.

That’s not shoving them down anyone’s throats.

If you don’t want to watch a short, don’t click on it. Just like if you don’t want to watch a video about a certain topic, you don’t click on it.

Seeing that they exist is in no way an inconvenience or annoyance. You’re supposed to just watch what you want.

Sure it is Sundar. When I go to youtube i see a few videos in the top half. The bottom half of screen is a row of Shorts that I don't want and have to scroll past. In a normal world there'd be a profile setting that lets you opt-out of Shorts being shown. In a normal world there wouldn't be a fake 'show fewer shorts' button that does absolutely nothing.

In a normal world people just scroll past the things they aren’t looking for without even processing the stuff they don’t want.

It’s extremely easy to never click on a Short. I don’t understand the emotional response to these things at all. I’m sure there’s tons of normal videos you don’t want to watch that’s you simply scroll past that don’t elicit emotion whatsoever.

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