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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
(www.androidauthority.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
First thing I did when the shorts spam apocalypse started, was create custom ublock filters to strip them out of youtube as much as I could. Too bad I didn't back them up before my system decided to go poof.
I just copied them over from here. Works for me.
https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts
Thanks for the hint! I mostly just ignored the shorts, but I just added that filter list to uBlock in firefox on android and it is much more pleasant when they're not there in the first place.