This way, you won't get the dreaded doomscroll interface, and you can also scrub through the video!
Thanks to others who pointed out that uBlock origin can permanently disable (as opposed to being annoyed every 30 days) shorts on YT, instant quality of life improvement.
The inability of tech companies to accept that no means no, and not "bother me later" is a dark pattern that I've noticed more and more lately.
Or I should say, I nearly wrote a userscript to do this, it mostly works but I still find myself manually changing urls. I am not good with JS.
There's also Redirector, which allows to do all kinds of redirects like this. For example, I use it to redirect from YouTube to Invidious or from Booking.com confirmation page to the variant without upsells (which are otherwise tricky to block with uBlock Origin).
http://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
My rules: https://gist.github.com/notpushkin/ee1ed3aa55a0926708d0de854...
Disclaimer: I'm not that into YouTube and kinda 'lucky-priced' to be in a region-discounted part of the world.