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YouTube is easy to block. Just clear all your history and disable history. This stops home screen recommendations and also disables YouTube shorts
youtube.com##:matches-path(/^\/?$/) #page-managerYouTube is easy to block. Just clear all your history and disable history. This stops home screen recommendations and also disables YouTube shorts
Yup, this is the way. Regarding Shorts, I have no YouTube history, but I still get Shorts. I hate them. You must be doing something else to disable them.
"display: none !important;"At a certain point you need to accept that you will not be able to willpower your way out of it. You need systems and strategies in place that cut you off from your addiction.
That can look like a lot of things that I'm not going to try to stuff into an HN comment but here's what works for me:
- Leaving the house with a dumb phone. I recommend using an old smartphone that is meticulously stripped away from bad things over purchasing a flip phone. You're eventually going to need to call up an uber, scan a QR code, and other such smartphoney things you need a dumb phone to do. Leaving your environment is also key. If you must, bring your actual phone with you, but fully powered off.
- Using a feature on your phone to cut yourself off from YouTube on a scheduled basis. Most phones have something like this by default, but there are also some third party apps that take it a step further.
- Have something you enjoy to take the place of YouTube. Entertainment is healthy to an extent. Taken too far, it becomes a distraction from cognitive processes you need to be regularly engaging in, to say the least.
YouTube is easy to block. Just clear all your history and disable history. This stops home screen recommendations and also disables YouTube shorts
Yup, this is the way. Regarding Shorts, I have no YouTube history, but I still get Shorts. I hate them. You must be doing something else to disable them.
Also it is true that these things with procrastination and addictive behaviors are very much emotional issues and so on... and in my case whenever I notice that I'm avoiding dealing with my emotions and the hard stuff with YouTube content black holes I do the resets.
Good luck
This was definitely one of the most important discoveries of my PhD.
Procrastination is not a time management problem; it's an emotional management problem. What it comes down to is not having belief in what you do, so you do other things. You might feel trapped, so you pass the time with stuff like YouTube because that is the most compelling thing available to you. A man will walk on broken glass with a smile if he truly believes in what it will accomplish. When I was younger, I was…
Well do I have a game for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest