We need to reclaim our attention

Re:We need to reclaim our attention by jacquesm on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:48AM (#29769103)

Sure. And then, at the end of every youtube video a whole slew of totally unrelated trashy videos that are perfectly produced to produce maximum engagement and eye candy will hijack your attention and steal another 3 hours before you even notice that they're gone because of the in-your-face nature of the recommendations.

Wouldn't it be great if all youtube did was just store and replay videos? But it doesn't, it's an engagement and advertising dollars slot machine.

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by bittercynic on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:28AM (#29770083)

Not a complete solution, but I like to block the elements that are most distracting to me.

  www.youtube.com##.html5-endscreen
  .ytp-pause-overlay
  www.youtube.com###secondary

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by xg15 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:25PM (#29773415)

Does that actually stop the autoplay or just hide the countdown?

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by bittercynic on Sunday January 02, 2022 @06:14PM (#29775175)

Neither.

If you use the toggle next to the closed caption to turn off autoplay, instead of playing another video the player will show thumbnails for other videos after the current one finishes. These filters prevent those suggestions from showing up, and you just get a black rectangle when the video is finished.

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by jacquesm on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:35PM (#29771022)

Thank you!

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