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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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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There is a plugin called unhook that I find useful for this purpose. You can hide suggested, chat, comments, home feed, etc to really hone in on what you want to watch. Each option has a toggle so for days that you feel the need to just loaf you can still do so. I also uninstalled YouTube from my mobile devices so I am forced to use the browser which adds additional friction. I still watch a lot of YouTube, but I am much more intentional now.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    i dont think there exists anything like that for my tv, but smarttube is open source so i could be wrong

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    This is why I use a PC (Linux) hooked up to my TV and not the TV. There is too little control in TV OS’s and there are many ways around that. Not using it is the easiest solution.

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