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How to spend less rule on YouTube?? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anybody know how to waste less time on YouTube lol

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Use Newpipe and only use the RSS based chronological feed for watching stuff. (Or just use a nice rss reader like feeder). Only subscribe to channels that make actual quality videos that you genuinly enjoy or make u learn cool stuff. That got me down to like 2-3 20-40min videos per day. When there is nothing new in your sub feed you stop using youtube. Any channel that frequently posts shorts gets kicked out of the feed.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Switching back to the official app might help. All those shitty ads and inability to PIP would make me spend less time.

Another option might be to keep using YouTube, but play music with it. Preferably lyricless music like soundtracks, jazz, or classical. Once YouTube is busy playing music it can't play anything else, and you can do other stuff while listening.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for replying but god couldn't force me to use the official app, that's like a one way to ticket to aneurysm town. I also use VLC so no need for music. But still thankies!!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A bit more practical is just delete all of your history and disable history on YouTube. You won't get recommendations that way and it will be boring to spend time on youtube

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I don't think I had history on since 2022, but yeah it's an incredible feature

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had the same problem 2 weeks ago. I uninstalled it. Fixed it. If you don't want to uninstall, set a timer for 0 minutes a day, if you have that feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Timers a fantastic idea that I also use when I need to get some work done but otherwise deleting the app completely is impossible, how else am I going to watch easy German or MIT lecture videos?

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Bro you spent 2 hours on the calculator wtf