Only thing that worked for me long term. My problem is mostly with shorts, so I didn’t want to have a global timer for the whole app.

For me it’s shorts and opening new tabs from the recommended videos on the one I’m currently watching… I usually never get to them though. Luckily I don’t have tab hoarding addiction and aggressively close all tabs whenever I realize I’ve got 20+ of them open.

I use YouTube in browser, partially because that already makes it worse… but still doesn’t stop the doom scrolling :)