RIP YouTube Shorts?! Users Can Now OPT OUT!

YouTube finally lets you disable Shorts on your feed -- the 2026 update buried in Time Management now lets anyone set the Shorts Feed Limit straight to zero minutes and watch the entire vertical doomscroll vanish from your home screen like it never existed. Yeah after years of shoving endless TikTok clones in your face and training the algorithm to keep you hooked on 15-second brain rot, Google tossed this tiny concession so you can actually scroll long-form videos without the constant interruption -- no more "show fewer" clicks or third-party hacks, just one setting that actually works while they keep the Shorts tab alive for everyone else.