[zimpenfish]

> Watch a few too many Minecraft videos or car repair and soon you start seeing more and more

In my experience it's "watch one video outside of your recommendations and then half your next set of recommendations will be related to that". I'm scared to click on anything I'm not already subscribed to for fear of trashing the home page.

[gtirloni]

You can (almost) always tell you're not interested in those videos and it slowly stops suggesting them. You can also ask it to never recommend a certain channel.

[TylerE]

You can’t, however stop it from suggestion huge blocks of shorts or crappy free to play games.

[dmd]

You somehow must be able to, as everyone I know has feeds full of that sort of thing, and I've never seen even one short or game on my youtube home page.

[immibis]

Nope. You specifically can't disable shorts, no matter how much you want to - so much that YouTube Revanced has this feature.

[zimpenfish]

> You specifically can't disable shorts

You can use the three dots to say "Not Interested" on the Shorts shelf but it only hides it for 30 days and then the insidious little worm comes right back.

[squigz]

Yes you can, with something like uBlock Origin, or even a simple stylesheet override.

[bigstrat2003]

If you have to go outside of youtube you modify its behavior, that doesn't really qualify as "you can make it stop". That's like saying you can make someone stop shooting you by wearing a Kevlar vest.

[squigz]

What a silly comparison.

[TylerE]

Seems perfectly apt to me. Javascript/CSS are also no solution at all on mobile devices.

[zimpenfish]

Sadly not available when using the Apple TV to watch YouTube. If there's a NextDNS / PiHole method that stops YouTube ads, I could probably implement that...

[treve]

I tried this for games and shorts, but something about their HTML changes enough that they keep reappearing. I absolutely despise shorts

[squigz]

Yeah they tweak the HTML enough that static stylesheet overrides can become outdated real quick. Very annoying. It's been a while since I looked, but there probably is some uBlock Origin filter list that'll handle this and will stay fairly up-to-date.

[pests]

You can delete things from your watch history to clean up the algo. If I ever let a TV auto play for too long or have kids over watching things I go though and delete things I think will negatively affect the algo.

I feel like clicking a video and immediately clicking off is also a negative signal they use but YMMV.