Please as you keep adding new Features, can we have ways to turn them off as Premium Customer.
The last several major features added have all been major downgrades for me, as a paying youtube customer.
* The miniplayer: now opens in a little window, regardless of what I was doing, or where I was watching a video. I have never wanted a miniplayer in youtube, but I could see the appeal if I was watching a video that was currently playing. But opening a brand new browser pops up a miniplayer window with the video that literally played all the way to 0:00 remaining last night on the youtube tv app, also written by google. The miniplayer is useless to me, but now it's not just useless, it is constantly \_in my way\_ as a user of your site. Not able to turn this "feature" off without installing an addon into the browser made by same company that makes this product. * YouTube Shorts and Stories: Do I even have to describe why I am uninterested in all of these? I have read too many people complain about this. I don't use instagram, tiktok, snapchat - no short form video is even remotely appealing to me and I would prefer to click a button and say "no thank you" to ever seeing that content ever show up in my feed, ever. * Already viewed videos consuming 75% of my recommendation feed: No. Just No. And even better, without adjusting my viewing history now I can't even see the "viewed" bar for 90% of all videos I have ever watched. That happened suddenly, and without actually adjusting my viewing history. What even is this? Give me a way to never have things I have already watched be recommended to me. For those of us who use your platform to, say, watch content instead of music videos, I \_genuinely\_ do not need to see the 45 minute educational video I JUST WATCHED as my top recommended video. Why this is a thing that happens, I cannot begin to explain.
I LOVE YouTube. I pay for the stupid premium service because I want to support the platform I have used forever and a day. But I do not want to be forced into the pidgeonhole of whatever this truly awful experience with the youtube desktop site has become, and as a paying customer I just want the ability to use the youtube I paid for when I enjoyed the site enough to give you my money. Please, help me not want to cancel my premium membership every time you add a feature.