Damnit. I got rid of #shorts in #YouTube (though I had to mod a module on my vanity site so I could embed a short of Neil Degrasse Tyson... now how do I get rid of "#Playables"? There's too much shit in YouTube these days.

Aha! Path of least resistance (assuming it works).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-utube-shorts

Edit: So far so good!

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