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Problem with shorts is until you click on them you don't know what channel they're from. Lots of things that look legit are actually AI junk or someone ripping off someone else's channel.
One thing I hate with shorts is that (at least on desktop for me) they hide the dates. When I see something I want to know if it's recent or not, so I avoid shorts altogether.
Yeah I'll click one about an update for a game I'm playing and look at the comments only to realize it's a year old and completely irrelevant. At this point I just keep the comments open so I don't waste time watching something old.
There are a few Firefox plugins that exclude Shorts from YouTube search results.
Web search engines that provide a video search may have a duration filter. Both Kagi and DuckDuckGo can do this, in a quick check.
You can block them with uBlock, too.
I've disabled shorts in feed and search. Much better without that stupid shit.