Making the Internet Boring
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Making the Internet Boring
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#2Some more good advice:
Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
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#4Some more good advice: Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
Or don't login. It will still learn about you so you don't always receive the blank main page. My browser is set to clear that data, yet with a single video being played the algo is already suggesting more content.
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#5Some more good advice: Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
I did similar for my work PC but for the browser: turn off all the conveniences. No history in the bar so there's no way way to lazily navigate to a website, I have to manually type in the URL. Saved passwords and cookies? Nope! closing the browser wipes history.
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#6The internet is a rich tapestry of human knowledge and experience. When I scroll Instagram, I often discover incredible new artists who present in human form. Once you start tapping like on things, the journey of discovery is almost biblical.
The secret is learning to use your tools to bring joyful moments of surrender into your otherwise mundane existence.
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#7Some more good advice: Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
> Turn off your YouTube watch history
Just to add to that, it's a two step process: disable saving new history, and then clear all history
I estimate my watch time dropped by half per day the first time I did that. Then I started curating my subscriptions better, and watching from that.
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#8Some more good advice: Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
On my smartphone I'm not using Google Play Services so when I open the app, all I get is the search box.
I told a friend this and told him this flips the script on the Algo. Now instead of YT telling you what to watch, YOU are in control of what YOU want to watch.
We have to start breaking this cycle somehow. This is a great way to do it.
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#9Some more good advice: Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
Or only use the subscriptions page, and never visit the home page.
Getting only the stuff you've curated is way better than the algorithm.
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#10Putting in blockers and the like helps, but what I've found worked best was to consider this quote by Anthony DeMello:
"When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power."
When I learned to stop feeling bad/guilty/thinking this was a problem to solve and just let my mind drift, I found that my mind naturally learned when it was disciplined work time vs. browse the internet time. Personally, I noticed that when I didn't have any artificial restriction, I was less inclined to waste time on those things.
In practice: "oh, my mind doesn't want to do that other thing right now but it does want to go look at this thing; let it." The more I've loosened my grip, the less distractions have affected my productivity.