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how to stop watching youtube AS MUCH (lemdro.id)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/screen_addiction@piefed.social
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i love youtube, it has great videos and creators. BUT i lose like my entire day from that shit, and im tired of it.

on my latest holiday with my family i watched like minimum 7 hours a day on my phone (in my defence there was alot of time when we just drove? our boat). So i looked a little and found an app called detoxdroid (which is available on f-droid btw) and i blocked the apps that took all of my time and it works great

but the problem is that i dont really use my phone when im at home, cause i have a tv and a pc, so my screentime skyrockets. i dont even want to know how much it is. Im using smarttube on my tv and the browser on my pc, although im not watching youtube on my pc that much since i got the tv. Now i dont want to quit entirely since youtube is awesome, and since im a creator myself i get some fomo i guess

pls help 🥀

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

How about ignoring the home feed that’s designed to keep you hooked?

Limit yourself to the view with videos from channels you actually subscribe to. And curate your subscriptions to higher quality.

The end result is a list of videos that will run out every day, forcing you to get up and do something else instead of finding another related video to watch.

I did this during the pandemic and after a few days of friction it felt much healthier to me. YouTube became a secondary part of my hobby/media habits instead of an all-consuming one.

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