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by groovybits 1327 days ago
Personally, the majority of my Home page are videos from my subscribed channels. I get the occasional suggestions for related content from other channels, but I'd say 8/10 times the suggestions are good ones for me.

My typical usage is:

* Go to Home page * Add highly relevant videos to my Watch Later playlist * View the videos from Watch Later, like/dislike as appropriate * Rinse and repeat

I'm trying to give Shorts a shot. I particularly like them for viewing podcast shorts, but I've noticed the suggestions are taking a longer time to give me 'relevant' videos. Some of the Shorts are totally random, while others are from my Subscribed channels. I make sure to like/dislike as appropriate, and I've noticed a slight improvement in a week's time.

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There is one primary reason why I don’t watch shorts, you cannot adjust speed of them (I watch most YT at 2.5x speed).
On desktop you can use a script that redirects you to normal video UI instead of the shorts one and you can change the speed there: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redi...
Thanks, I knew there had to be a solution, once short content opened in normal player for me, I just didn't find it worth to look for it.