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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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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Are you watching or do you passive listed like me? Or are you on the reels because that's magnitudes of more difficult to pull yourself back from.

Generally the best advice for most phone addictions is to have allotted times for phone use. If you're on one of the former mentioned types of videos I personally would shift to one of the less absorbing kinds until you're at a point where you can do a different activity.

Can you go for walks where you're at? Garden? Crochet? What did you like doing before you liked youtube?

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