<story><title>How I spend less time on YouTube</title><url>https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loloquwowndueo</author><text>The best way I’ve found to spend less time on YouTube is realizing that the vast majority of content is pure garbage and just stay the hell away from it. These days I only visit it when I need something specific (a tutorial on how to do a particular thing, a video the kid wants to watch, etc). And of course uBlock origin is enabled to spare me from the “unskippable ads that are longer than the video itself” experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrollaway</author><text>YouTube has some of the best, highest quality free content available on the internet today.&lt;p&gt;Stay away from the crap, remove it from your recommendations, subscribe to some good channels.  It’s that simple.&lt;p&gt;Don’t if that’s not your thing but you’re missing out. If you change your mind here are a few exceptional channels to get you started, they should cater well to a HN style audience:&lt;p&gt;Technology Connections (misc tech)&lt;p&gt;Wendover Productions (Logistics)&lt;p&gt;DefunctLand (Documentaries on old defunct stuff)&lt;p&gt;Not Just Bikes (Cycling, public transport, urban design, walkability)&lt;p&gt;Practical Engineering (civil engineering)&lt;p&gt;3Blue1Brown (Math)</text></comment>
<story><title>How I spend less time on YouTube</title><url>https://pawelurbanek.com/youtube-addiction-selfcontrol</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>loloquwowndueo</author><text>The best way I’ve found to spend less time on YouTube is realizing that the vast majority of content is pure garbage and just stay the hell away from it. These days I only visit it when I need something specific (a tutorial on how to do a particular thing, a video the kid wants to watch, etc). And of course uBlock origin is enabled to spare me from the “unskippable ads that are longer than the video itself” experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sabjut</author><text>While I agree that &amp;quot;the vast majority of content is pure garbage&amp;quot;, I have to make an argument that a non-negligible portion of the site delivers high-quality educational videos with excellent research. The curiosity-seeking part of my brain is subject to being very easy to get hooked on this.</text></comment>