I’ve noticed this behavior for all Google properties. Every time I click “not interested” “don’t show me this again” or anything similar, it seems to have no effect as the best case. The worst case I’ve seen is when clicking these options seems to acts as a positive signal to show me more of that content. I’ve noticed this over years.

As such, I’ve simply stopped interacting with googles recommendation systems and most of googles content delivery systems. Including using YouTube as minimally as possible.

I do the same, and after a day of doing it- they seem to go away for a time depending on the platform, but they always come back and sometimes they come back a lot.

The web-browser is the least aggressive and I think I haven’t even seen them on Apple TV.

The iPhone App is the most egregious offender of not respecting the request though, it seems to almost not care at all, and now the thumbnails on the home screen have started autoplaying (with audio) and I can’t find how to disable it (older instructions seem to be invalid).

They have all the content though; so I have no choice but to deal with this, until a good enough competitor comes along and my favourite youtube channels upload to both places.

That’s like the crosswalk button that does nothing. It’s there purely for the placebo effect.

For me, clicking that hides shorts for 30 days and then I need to click it again. So it's a monthly ritual.

"My Eyes! The Goggles Do Nothing!"--Rainier Wolfcastle as Radioactive Man

It used to be that they were gone for a month. Now they're gone for a day. Possibly less.

  Do you want $foo?  
  
  Yes | Ask again later  
  

It's like pressing the "close door" button on an elevator.

Clearly that is useless for people who browse YT anonymously, hence the usefulness of the list.

Short form video is addictive, so they want to push it. It maximizes time on site.

The whole YT front page is an absolute utter clusterfook.

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