Reminder that you don’t have to play by YouTube rules.
Unsubscribe from everything and disable video history, that also stops the slop recommendation engine.
YouTube search still works, you’ll still come across interesting YouTube links and if there are channels you want to subscribe to there is a way to get them in your RSS reader.
You can also get the feed to be full-length videos only, ignoring all the noise coming from shorts.
Does it? Last time I tried YouTube search it was useless. It showed two or three relevant results, then a bunch of shorts, then a long list of totally unrelated "you might also like" results.
YouTube search still works, you’ll still come across interesting YouTube links and if there are channels you want to subscribe to there is a way to get them in your RSS reader. You can also get the feed to be full-length videos only, ignoring all the noise coming from shorts.