[archixe]

There is an add-on called unhook that allows you to disable almost everything on youtube. I turned off shorts, recommendations, the home page even the comments. Now all I see is my subsriptions page. It really stopped me from wasting hours hopping videos.

It also workes on firefox mobile, I stopped using the default youtube app.

[dabluecaboose]

Unfortunately, it doesn't disable shorts from the subscriptions tab. Which is really annoying now that all my preferred creators are making shorts, and it tries to suck me into doomscrolling.

[gte525u]

I started using Chrome plugin RYS that does something similar - where youtube functions but recommendations are removed. It's helped consumption dramatically. I'm kinda wondering if I need to do the same for reddit and hacker news where links/articles would work but the mainpage / subreddit pages wouldn't.