[ulam2]

I personally solved this by using revanced and disabling shorts completely.

[squarefoot]

Same here with FreeTube. YT has become a toxic experience on any browser and recently it has stopped working on my laptop with Firefox and uBlock Origin, no matter if I surf it as logged in in my main google account or not. The same arrangement works on my main desktop, but i mostly use FreeTube there as well.

[shmageggy]

I personally solved this by never clicking a short. We don't have to engage with every technology presented to us.

[rightbyte]

It is hard not to accidently click on shorts when they are interleaved in search results.