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Part of a strange, larger trend where things get worse as technology advances.
autocorrect, search engine results, google now -> assistant, voice recognition.
All of those seemed to be much better a few years back.
Swipe on my gboard has definitely gone worse lately. Same for my YT recommendations. I never ever watch shorts, and 90% of my recommendations are 13sec clips.
That's you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.
My gboard has gotten way worse. I also have 2 languages turned on but I have multilingual suggestions turned off and it still tries to suggest words in the wrong language half the time
You need to very consistently mark every short video as Not Interested and then avoid watching them like the plague. It worked for me but took about a week of doing it.
There's a firefox plugin to remove shorts from youtube entirely. super worth it.
My controversial opinion is that cell phone layout designs (not tech) peaked around 2010 and were killed by the iPhone. Don't @ me.