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"Shorts" and "Games" are like herpes. No matter how many times you try to get rid of them, they just keep appearing.
I do not want short form video, nor do I want to participate in "gaming" that is just poker machines reskinned as a "game" to take your money.
The "not interested" button, it does nothing!
When combined with "don't recommend channel" and removing videos from your watch history, it works for content. Unless you actually partake in related content. For example: If you watch political content, you will regularly get recommended stuff opposite to what you like, regardless of many times you click "not interested".
Although it should be mentioned that "not interested" does literally nothing when it comes to not seeing shorts in general, for that you need an extension, app or ublock filter that let you hide them.
"Not Interested" is just free data for them to fill out your account's advertising profile.
I made a filter in ublock origin. Haven't seen shorts in forever and I didn't even realize they were trying to peddle 'games' now