[skaul]

This is easy in Brave, just go to brave://settings/shields/filters and enable the "YouTube Anti-Shorts" filter list.

[binaryturtle]

I simply add "0.0.0.0 youtube.com" to the (network wide) hosts file on my router. Problem solved. I'm simply do understand why the problem is just with "shorts", most of the "longs" are not worth wasting time with either. :-)

[wvenable]

YouTube has a massive amount of edutainment content that is absolutely fantastic. Content that could never make it onto mainstream television.

At this point I think I owe all my hobbies to YouTube.

[beala]

You can also block any arbitrary page element and that block will persist between page loads. I think it’s in right click menu. I used this to permanently block the YouTube chat feature.