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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] columbus 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

YouTube is like a time killing drug. I'm trying to get rid of it. Any advice?

[–] Smokeydope 8 points 1 year ago
  1. go through your subscriptions and get rid of the channels you aren't interested in anymore
  2. export subs as .json and import them into Freetube for desktop pc and Newpipe for android. Invidious and piped instances such as https://vid.puffyan.us and https://piped.video also allow you to import subs. You can also import youtube subs into RSS feed readers.
  3. go into your google account settings, nuke and turn off watch hiyostory, turn off targeted ads and anything else you see in there.
  4. Repeat step 1 every so often and better curate your list of subs. Your feed only contains the videos you want to see first in formost and not what the algorithm wants you to see. When you do have to use youtube itself it will be limited in how much data it can collect off you.
[–] Lyricism6055 4 points 1 year ago

Books aren't feeding as much off of the FOMO angle of stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

NewPipe, just see what you want to see

[–] eltrain123 3 points 1 year ago

Don’t install an ad blocker. You’ll be looking for something else in no time.

[–] OhmsLawn 3 points 1 year ago

If you're looking for advice for a less-addictive video service, and you want to support creators, Nebula.

New Pipe is also a great little YT client, less addictive in that there's no suggestion algorithm, so you need to know what you want to watch.