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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Sounds like an overreaction. Theres a shit ton of useful information on YouTube. Its like if you said 'I’m trying to quit wikipedia because I don’t like the company that owns it"
Theres no reason to hinder yourself just because you don’t like google. Maybe a bit of self control is what you really need
Unhooked is a nice extension to help self contrrol.
I literally got brainrotted with Shorts and I couldnt stop scrolling for 3h. Additionally doing Homework was impossible with a narrowed consciousness which I call brainrot.
I forces myself to walk in the Forest to regain my brain, memory and control.
Unhooked helped not seeing recommendations when open up youtube and on learning phasesto not see further recommendations when watching something. Unsure if I had a second extension to kill shorts entirely because they are the worst and not giving anything good back.
I never really watched the shorts on YouTube as theyre not what I went there for and just constantly hit ‘stop showing me thsse’ in my recommendations. They still recommend them but it seems less so sometimes.
It sucks because all the other recommendations are usually pretty good. I blame the outrage over tiktok by the USA for google adding that shorts crap to YouTube. They thought they could seize a market of short attention span people(they were right) but just took the worst aspects of tiktok and added it to their platform.
I donr have energy for that and mostly rather click on a interesting title because of ADHD and repeating thoughts about that title till watched. I am someone who changes everything to my liking and when I see myself forcing to press 2 stupid buttons to not be distracted everytime, then I see myself changing this behaviour or stop using the service if not possible. So in other words. I press 100 buttons to never press a button again.
Reasons why I use Arch Linux with KDE instead of Windows where you cant change 90% of things, and if you do, you can only do by external Programs that will break after a Windows update.