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I'm in pretty much the exact same place as you - although I need my smartphone for work.

If you need help with YouTube, like I do, here are some extremely helpful uBlock Origin scripts to hide Shorts: https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

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As another option, I use the Redirector browser add-on to automatically take me from /shorts/{videoid} to /watch?v=$1. Its amazing how manipulative the shorts interface is because if you're not in it, the temptation is SO massively reduced. Shows how much money they obviously spent on psych profiling for shorts to get that first click. We are just meat puppets to them.

Ref: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector

Oh man, THANK YOU! I only know for sure shorts leak through when searching and so far so good. Ya, thanks again!

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