I did, before I disabled the watch history which then also disables shorts, effectively. Shorts may be the wish/temu version of TikTok (though increasingly less so), but is absolutely as addictive.

How does disabling watch history disable shorts?

Well, shorts stop working if you do: https://i.imgur.com/cbFjIF4.jpeg

wow i've been looking for a way to do this for a while, guess I needed to google other ways of doing it. thank you

Gmail was an improvement though. What did Youtube Shorts improve on tik tok exactly?

I don't think it matters if it's better or worse. There are plenty of bad browser based email implementations. I think we should be encouraging companies to borrow and steal good software ideas from each other, because otherwise we end up stifling innovation.

I don't know why exactly, but I don't get almost any "watch part 2" content on YouTube shorts. That's actually the only reason I started using it instead of TikTok - those really enraged me.