What about mobile? I find myself scrolling on my phone a lot and I use a modded app because Android, thankfully. I feel like the best solution is to just delete the app, ultimately.
Interestingly, this is a non-hidden feature of YouTube itself; you can just close the shorts section of the page. Except that the setting automatically expires after some period of time, maybe ~1 month.
> Hide Youtube Watched
This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense; would you hide "heard" songs on Spotify?
- Hide Youtube Shorts
- Hide Youtube Watched
- uBlock Filter to remove Upcoming videos from the subscription page
- Unhook with most options turned on
I do the same for Twitter with the Just Arrived extension tweaked from gh.