[drewr]

I spend noticeably less time on youtube than I used to because they keep shoving shorts in my face. I'm a premium subscriber, I click "fewer shorts," nothing changes. Maybe I should be thankful?

[JoshTriplett]

Turn off all the history options, and bookmark https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions , which shows you only what you're subscribed to, in reverse-chronological order. (It'll still show you shorts, but only those for channels you're subscribed to.)

[EchoReflection]

I recently quit YT premium after decades of having it, and now I actually (weirdly) feel good when I see ads bc it's a reminder that I'm not giving Googletube 20$/month

[namblooc]

I wouldn't use the word decades to describe a time span of less than 11 years at maximum, but you do you!

[EchoReflection]

touché, I suppose it was "more than 3/4/5 years" and my sense of time is, unfortunately, warped