[vetinari]

> you can also right click and remove it.

Are you sure? For me, I can only "Disable" it, and it gets promptly re-enabled right after clicking on some other item in the sidebar.

There doesn't seem to be any way to disable it permanently, or, preferably, removing it entirely.

[nolok]

This list is filled with a LUA script in a VLC dir, and you can override it with a user list. IT's not available through GUI but if it bothers you it's possible to remove it entirely that way.

[vetinari]

Unfortunately on a Mac, by touching files in the app bundle (VLC.app/Content/MacOS/share/lua/playlist) you break the app signature :(