Sounds like an overreaction. Theres a shit ton of useful information on YouTube. Its like if you said 'I’m trying to quit wikipedia because I don’t like the company that owns it"
Theres no reason to hinder yourself just because you don’t like google. Maybe a bit of self control is what you really need
I never really watched the shorts on YouTube as theyre not what I went there for and just constantly hit ‘stop showing me thsse’ in my recommendations. They still recommend them but it seems less so sometimes.
It sucks because all the other recommendations are usually pretty good. I blame the outrage over tiktok by the USA for google adding that shorts crap to YouTube. They thought they could seize a market of short attention span people(they were right) but just took the worst aspects of tiktok and added it to their platform.