Credit: Joe Hindy / Android AuthorityTL;DRYouTube is increasing its push for Shorts by auto-launching them when people start the app.The behavior appears erratic, and not everyone is experiencing it — yet.YouTube hasn’t confirmed whether this is an experiment, an intended feature, or a bug.YouTube has a tendency to push Shorts in as many different ways as it can. You’d often find the top three, sometimes four, rows on your YouTube home page dedicated to Shorts. Sometimes, Shorts show up as recommendations under long-form videos instead of comments. Similar experiments don’t stop at YouTube, but there’s a recent one that pushes vertical content and particularly seems to annoy many users.Several posts across Reddit highlight how launching YouTube sometimes opens Shorts without a warning. That’s usually the case when you might have shut the app on a Shorts screen, but some people say that it persists even when the app has been closed on another page. Some even say YouTube opens Shorts on startup, even when they don’t watch vertical videos at all.