This extension does a good job of removing them from your subscription feed. If you like me, guard your feed since you don't want to watch random stuff from the home page this is the only way to not totally clutter the feed with random shorts thumbnails. The very fact you can not disable shorts from your feed is outrageous, but obviously not surprising.
I’ve noticed a similar problem with Tumblr’s app. Last year they added a “live” feature, apparently trying to carve out some minor slice of egirl pie, and proceeded to put it all over the UIs. Also popups asking you to pay money. Needless to say UX has dramatically devolved on their app.
