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Comment by quaintdev

16 days ago

Just pause watch history and it will disable shorts recommendation. The only shorts you will see will be from your subscribed channels.

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jarvist  16 days ago

I've always had watch history off, but my searches now return a couple of pages of short form nonsense, before my actual results.

  • malfist  16 days ago

    YouTube search is just broken. Has been for a long long long time. You get 3-4 relevant results and then it just shows you random unrelated crap.

    • daveguy  16 days ago

      It's not broken from Google's perspective. The results are just optimized for their ad revenue rather than your viewing preference. Even the engagement hooks don't care what your viewing preferences are - just what they've calculated to optimize watch potential * ad revenue.

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subscribed  16 days ago

NEVER worked for me. I have always shorts shoved in every possible page, device and results, and I have watch history off since forever.