I have an extension that can individually disable all the most useless/addicting components of the Youtube site, such as shorts and whatnot. On the search page, I have turned on: > hide Shorts > hide For You > hide Trending > hide 'People Also Searched For' > hide Search Categories > hide Promoted Videos > hide Promoted Websites > hide Suggested Products Do you know what Youtube has started doing? They are now inserting engagement slop DIRECTLY into the search results, as seen in the image above. It's literally a short, yet it's inserted like a video so you're **forced** to see it. The only possible way to remove it is by using a privacy frontend, as even on incognito mode, Youtube will look at the three videos you've watched and start inserting shit based off that. Louis Rossman is right, they all have rapist mentalities... "just let me stick it in"