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Re:YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers by miduil on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:22PM (#44664640)
I've watched this video the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWsL8ME3ruk and it somehow helped me breaking my YouTube addiction for the last several weeks. Quite random but it really helped.

I still muscle memory enter youtube.com and I'm blown away how incredible addictive everything is setup there to be, the "algorithm" has trained the content creators to maximize their reach with incredible captivating thumbnails (and of course great content).

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Re:YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers by vouaobrasil on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:25PM (#44664664)
Best thing is to turn off recommendations and history, which can be done with YouTube. You can also use uBlock Origin to block even more controls (on YouTube on other websites too), which make websites more unintuitive to use.
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