I have no affiliation with Shorts Blocker, but I installed it a long time ago and immediately forgot that shorts existed. Worth whatever I paid for it.
why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?
Maybe you place a value on your time higher than $1.99 divided by the time it would take you to create it. Maybe you don't care to learn how to create an addon.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shorts-blocker-for-youtube/id6...