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		pbasista 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction > disabling watch history also disables Shorts. I have YouTube watch history disabled and when I search for something I usually get a few "lines" of search results filled with "Shorts".

danielbln 5 months ago [–]

Yeah but the endless customized one-more-time mechanism won't work anymore, which is the addictive part.

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