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Does anybody know how to waste less time on YouTube lol
I use a YouTube front end that doesn’t have a “feed” or algorithm based suggestions page. It only has a subscriptions page and the related videos side bar. I can still definitely go down rabbit holes, but they are often more focused and related to something I’m interested in, rather than devolving to slop.
This is exactly the thing i did and it worked wonders. (using FOSS Grayjay)
This has been my exit strategy. With no algorithm, I lose interest naturally and instead focus on...
Well the important thing is that I'm not giving YouTube ad revenue.
WhatsApp is spying you
Uh what?
Seriously, don't use whatsapp for secure messaging.
Should I encrypt my memes and send them through P2P? (but do tell, how do they spy?)
Got a lot better for me after I uninstalled it
Install more calculator apps and you won't have time for YouTube.
qalculate for android is good
"someone who is good at the economy please help me calculate this. my battery is dying." ?
You just need more monitors. Then you can let YouTube do its thing without really paying much attention to it and get on with your life on the other 2 or 3 screens.
Yeah, use the official client, the stupid stupid ads will annoy you enough to interrupt you in frustration from time to time
Do more math?
Okay but what's going on with your calculator usage?
Friends invited me to a game of Okey and I can't really calculate shit well in my head (discalculia, like have you ever divided 6 by 3 and found 3 and thought it was perfectly sensible?) so I had to use my calculator app. I found this a few days after, by then I had forgotten the game (lol), thought a lot about whatever the fuck I did on my calculator for two hours. Had a good laugh when I figured it out
lol, happy to share in the laugh. I do love me a good calculator app.
Uninstall youtube. Use newpipe. It gives you a chronological feed and only of the people you subscribe to. You can also create lists of channels. No more random youtube poop reccomebdations that steal your time from you. Next step, switch to only watching stuuf that is on peertube. I am not there yet though.
What if I specifically go out of my way for YouTube Poops?
The question was how to waste less time on youtube, not more.
Watch at 2x speed.
I genuinely watch videos at 1.5x or 1.75x speed, I became used to it and watching at normal speed feels weird now
Well what I did 3years ago, really cut down my usage of YT:
I switched to NewPipe. I got angry with tge deterioration of YT and the fact that they hid dislikes made me angry. So, I deleted the yt app and installed NewPipe. Newpipe doesnt support yt accounts, I was too lazy to add my subscription and set the default screen to an empty screen.
I used to watch yt for around 2hours per day (~mainly memes, but in the further past I used to watch more sciency-stuff) and now I spend around 15minutes per day (~mainly music or tutorials(?), though, lol, I use other apps/platforms more, like lemmy). I think the fact that the period I deleted YT it was a period of various changes, might helped me change my daily yt consumption too.
Uninstall apps then use YouTube via mobile browser.
The experience is just not as seamless, which makes it easier to disconnect.
I did something similar with Reddit, I also have Adblock setup on mobile with a custom rule to block Reddit.com. So if I do want to go on reddit, I specifically need to open the Adblock app and go through menus to enable it again.
And a more abstract answer, find something else to spend your time on.
Considering the Autoplay function doesn't even work half the time on mobile web, that's doubly true!
Go for a bike ride or go out to get 10k stepa