Okay, since I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, you can block shorts using ublock origin. You can block pretty much any component on any website.

Smarttube will block shorts, works best on TVs and large screen devices.

YouTube revanced will as well, make sure you download the right one, lots of fakes out there.

https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1pebuhd/simplest_way_to_get_the_official_revanced_youtube/

Not sure if you can filter out shorts within browsers with something like ublock origin filters, may need to look into it.

Shorts are literally brainrot. Fuck tiktok, fuck shorts.

“Enhancer for YouTube” add-on lets you block shorts on Firefox and Chrome.

There is an extension for Firefox for blocking shorts. You lose the shorts button and any short you access through a link is converted into a regular, full size video.

On android you can hide/remove with revanced.

I still use YouTube but never sign in, so basically I just search for what I wanna watch, Instead of subscribing I just have the channels I want in am RSS feed.

I might consider self hosting Invidious maybe. 

https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

Vanced lets you remove the tab and remove the full portrait default, think it pulls shorts from results too.

A much better experience

I just block it with uBlock element picker (do the same for the sidebar and comments)

The Unhook browser extension for Youtube lets you choose what to block. You can choose to toggle the Shorts off without toggling anything else off.

Seconding ReVanced. RVX works like a charm. Not ready to leave the Google ecosystem just yet. But, when I do, I'll switch to primarily using NewPipe.

I'm also keeping track of Haven as they may be an up and coming YT alternative for artists and creatives. They're currently in seed funding so it'll be interesting to see if they can get off the ground.

If you are talking about the home page, I blocked the container for "featured content" using ublock, that kills short and news in the feed. If you get linked to a short, you can use a extension to redirect the URL to the normal watch player.

I think it's fairly new, but when you use search, there's a list of filters at the top now like All, Videos, Unwatched, Watched, Recently Uploaded, etc. If you click video, it will only list videos with no shorts.

Turn off history on youtube. From that point on you will only get shorts from the people you're actually subscribed to and nothing else.

Oh and even with history turned off when you start a regular video from one of your favored creators, the sidebar will continue to suggest videos from other people you are not subscribed to. So you will not be completely isolated. But it will tone down the brain rot considerably.

Did you watch the video?

I know Brave is a big no no in these woods but they offer an option to select your own Content Filtering lists and one of those is Youtube Shorts.

Fantastic privacy feature.

Also they have Paywall Blocker, AI Suggsstion Blocker... Etc etc