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Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by knaik94 »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #58
knaik94 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My reflection is that it doesn't interefere with my work at all, and my significant other and I often fall asleep listening to podcasts or video essays. I do wear headphones and I am far for the only one that sleeps with headphones in. Here's a link to a product that is a headband that has speakers built in with a 4.5 rating and 13,000+ reviews. [1] This seems silly and I would not recommend it, and suggest regular h…

This is some crazy shit. Only you can decide if a behavior is addictive. People can suggest it but it's only an opinion. They dont live your experience. Having said that, your watch patterns are shocking to me.

Disordered behavior and addiction is dependent on the specific action having a meaningfully detrimental impact on one's life. Addiction is not a subjective thing, this is why I don't like when people use that word the way the author did. It's a clinically defined thing.

I appreciate that it lets me live my life with less struggles. I am far from an outlier in any way. I would recommend looking up average watch time statistic across various social media platforms as well as Netflix, Amazon, etc. As well as viwer stats of seasons sports like College Football, Formula 1, FIFA.

"According to Insider Intelligence projections, while overall time spent with media per day will decline slightly from 13 hours, 13 minutes in 2021 to 13 hours, 7 minutes in 2022, time spent with digital media—video, smartphones, CTV, subscription OTT, and digital audio—will maintain steady gains and continue claiming even more time going forward."

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/us-time-spent-w...

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by pushedx »

layer8 wrote: post #52

> wordless videos of food being prepared in the morning in Japanese restaurants Oh my god I need to watch this. Any recommendations?

“Japanese food craftsman”, “DancingBacons”, “I Will Always Travel for Food”, “Japanese Noodles Udon Soba Osaka Nara”

In that order.

Yes, these are all channel names.

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by theshrike79 »

lairv wrote: post #70

I don't know why the author spends half of the article justifying how can youtube addiction be a thing, it seems to me that social media addiction is now an established thing, which a large proportion of people are subject to If you own an Android phone there is a "Digital well being" settings which allows you to block applications after a certain amount of time spent every day, it also work for time spent on certain…

I've set myself Screen Time on iOS for this exact reason.

Yes, it takes discipline to stop, but it's still a good thing that the OS notifies "You've spent a hour on social media already".

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by jna_sh »

lairv wrote: post #70

I don't know why the author spends half of the article justifying how can youtube addiction be a thing, it seems to me that social media addiction is now an established thing, which a large proportion of people are subject to If you own an Android phone there is a "Digital well being" settings which allows you to block applications after a certain amount of time spent every day, it also work for time spent on certain…

They tell you why they spend so long justifying it as a thing, because people around them said it wasn’t a thing.

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by TillE »

knaik94 wrote: post #32
ITB wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but I think a post like the above should make someone like you take a time to reflect, instead of immediately prepare a defense. Regardless of what is driving your desire to watch so much YouTube, which in the end is what defines the degree of the pathology, it’s still an inordinate amount. YouTube is not background noise. Your brain is paying a bit of attention to it, getting dopamine from it, and becoming pr…

My reflection is that it doesn't interefere with my work at all, and my significant other and I often fall asleep listening to podcasts or video essays. I do wear headphones and I am far for the only one that sleeps with headphones in. Here's a link to a product that is a headband that has speakers built in with a 4.5 rating and 13,000+ reviews. [1] This seems silly and I would not recommend it, and suggest regular h…

> that is not how dopamine works

People these days love talking about nonsense like "dopamine hits", it's textbook pseudoscience.

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by atonse »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #49
extasia wrote: post #46

Changing my phone to black and white mode helped, I was previously watching 3+hrs of yt a day as was OP. Also making a mental note of how long you spend helps, even if you don't have the willpower to stop then and there. Over time You keep making that same note and eventually build up the fortitude to modify your behaviour / fight your addiction. Good luck to you all.

Where is black white mode in ios?

You can also set it so that triple tapping on the sleep button brings up the accessibility menu so you can turn black and white mode on/off quickly if needed

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by atonse »

jjj123 wrote: post #13
everdrive wrote: post #6

It seems like all ad (and tracking) supported companies know how to do is optimize for engagement, which effectively means becoming addictive. This business model is too easy and too profitable to ever go away, so all we can do is learn to recognize it, and learn how to it responsibly. Like other addictions, sometimes this means restricting, and sometimes this means wholly abstaining. On the topic of Youtube addictio…

> so all we can do is learn to recognize it, and learn how to it responsibly Or we can regulate it.

I prefer this method.

Even something as simple as the regulation requiring the site to make it EASY to turn those things off (But give the choice to consumers via big, easy to see toggles in the right places). Rather than having them put in browser extensions.

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by atonse »

broAhmed wrote: post #35

Read Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism . If you’re like me, you’ll substitute one digital addiction for another when trying to give up something; his book is helping me to break that cycle. Products like YouTube and most social media are finely tuned billion dollar machines aimed at capturing and holding your attention; our fleshy brains require more than a simple detox to break that grip.

That's been my experience. I stopped using Facebook and twitter, and hacker news doesn't keep me occupied for hours. So YouTube has taken over all that desire for content.

I don't think it even matters that most of the stuff I watch is educational, fascinating, and helping me learn new things. It affects my sleep and is still a bit of a passive time suck (like I could just be experimenting with wok cooking in the hours spent watching dozens of videos of others learning how to cook with a wok). So will check out these various extensions that remove recommendations, etc.

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by tnamef »

I found YouTube exciting around maybe 2015, when content was novel and less commercialized.

Now most content is repetitive, streamlined for ads and with sensationalist ugly thumbnails. Basically like the Internet at large, which has turned into a gigantic tabloid.

Re: YouTube Addiction

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Post by mackrevinack »

suzumer wrote: post #8

I used to be addicted to youtube, and the most effective method I found to limiting my consumption was using an extension called Unhook. It removes all recommendations and the shorts and trending tabs, so the only videos I can watch are those from channels I'm subscribed to, or videos that I search for.

you can hide lots of things with ublock origin as well. these are the filters im using to hide the sidebar and shorts:

! youtube suggested videos sidebar www.youtube.com##ytd-item-section-renderer.ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer.style-scope

! youtube shorts on homepage www.youtube.com##.ytd-rich-section-renderer.style-scope > .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer.style-scope

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