I think I'm addicted to youtube
as much as I'd like to think youtube isn't social media it absolutely is. and for the past few days it's sucking a lot of my time.
I've always been prone to doomscrolling. the reason I run away from short form content isn't because it's bad (though it usually is). it's because I have zero control when it comes to it. lately I've been experiencing the same thing with normal length youtube videos. I intend on spending like an hour, I go in and hours of my day are sucked into it. I leave feeling tired and when I check my history later to see what I watched and I find nothing that I really care about.
so I'm going to delete the app from my tablet and configure it on my phone to just display the subscription page. (thanks revanced extended) I still have youtube on my tv via smart tube. i find watching it on tv is a more deliberate action. so that's why I plan on putting the videos I want to watch from my phone to the watch later playlist and later watch it on my tv. the subscription feed is really slow compared to the homepage which gets instantly filled with new content every time I refresh it. it's really discouraging to see no new content every time I open the app which is the goal really.
anyhow if you want the configuration of revanced extended on my phone you can copy it down below and import it in settings/rvx/other settings/import-export. it isn't anything special really, it's here if you don't want to mess around in settings.
"change_start_page": "subscriptions",
"custom_seekbar_color_accent": "#c4a7e7",
"custom_seekbar_color_primary": "#c4a7e7",
"default_video_quality_wifi": 1080,
"disable_auto_captions": true,
"enable_custom_seekbar_color": true,
"hide_clip_button": true,
"hide_download_button": true,
"hide_navigation_home_button": true,
"hide_navigation_notifications_button": true,
"hide_navigation_shorts_button": true,
"hide_player_previous_next_button": true,
"hide_recommended_video": true,
"hide_related_video_overlay": true,
"hide_remix_button": true,
"hide_report_button": true,
"hide_rewards_button": true,
"hide_shop_button": true,
"hide_thanks_button": true,
"hide_toolbar_cast_button": false,
"hide_toolbar_notification_button": true,
"miniplayer_type": "minimal",
"overlay_button_copy_video_url": true,
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