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1. mindcr+IQ[view] [source] 2025-01-22 16:43:39
>>saeede+(OP)
Ugh. I don't necessarily do "doom" scrolling, but lately I have gotten drawn into wasting time on these various stupid "shorts" or "reels" or whatever, mostly on FB. It's weird too... for ages I was vehement about never, ever clicking on any of that crap on FB or Youtube (and I barely use Instagram at all and don't even have TikTok). But one day, somehow, I got suckered in by a thumbnail of a cute dog or something, and lately I've been finding myself wasting an hour or more at a time, idly watching stupid videos of low value crapola. :-(

This is a habit I feel like I absolutely have to shed. Luckily, a lot of the impetus to do that will go away when I ditch FB, which I'm going to do as soon as I get my new personal website/blog set up.

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2. nicbou+P81[view] [source] 2025-01-22 18:14:40
>>mindcr+IQ
I blocked anything to do with Shorts because of how addictive they are.
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3. seb120+Do1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 19:52:56
>>nicbou+P81
Is it possible to block just YouTube shorts and not YouTube?
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4. Eavolu+H53[view] [source] 2025-01-23 12:28:26
>>seb120+Do1
I have watch history off on YouTube, if I go onto the shorts tab on YouTube it says "recommendations are off, we rely on your watch history...".

It still shows me shorts from subscriptions on the subscriptions tab, which I don't mind. If you scroll on them it shows you ones from other subscriptions before stopping and showing that message again.

In searches it does show shorts, but will only let you scroll through ~5 before that message comes up again.

I really like this setup because I can see my subscriptions shorts, which are generally fine, and it doesn't let me spend more than like 2m scrolling.

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