How to make YouTube less distracting

Re:How to make YouTube less distracting by kkoncevicius on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:09AM (#34624537)

After some reflection I came to a conclusion that I rarely (if ever) watched anything of value on YouTube, and so the best method to make YouTube less distracting in my case was adding:

  0.0.0.0         youtube.com
  0.0.0.0         www.youtube.com
  0.0.0.0         youtu.be
  0.0.0.0         www.youtu.be
  0.0.0.0         youtube-nocookie.com
  0.0.0.0         www.youtube-nocookie.com
  0.0.0.0         ads.youtube.com

to /etc/hosts

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Re:How to make YouTube less distracting by amitabhydv on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:26AM (#34624679)

damn! that's brutal :p

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Re:How to make YouTube less distracting by bbokan on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:39AM (#34625225)

I just registered hn account to write the same thing.

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Re:How to make YouTube less distracting by aaws11 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:45AM (#34625768)

and someone stole the opportunity from you. BAM!

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Re:How to make YouTube less distracting by gregwebs on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:43AM (#34625263)

You can also use NextDNS to block it at the DNS level and point all your computers and phones to that one resolver.

I do want to watch some YouTube videos, so I use the scheduling feature in NextDNS to cutoff YouTube before bedtime.

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Re:How to make YouTube less distracting by angelbar on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:09PM (#34631596)

You need to search more youtube... there is value deep inside

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