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Comment by piotrke | Hacker News Reader

I was waiting for this feature for years!

I often go to youtube to find explaination to different things, but usually I ended up watching 10 other very interesting videos and even sometimes forgetting what for I came in the first place!

It's either a weak will of mine or great algorithms serving what I would love to watch. Now it's an easy game: only what I came for and no distractions!

Best move ever, YT!

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The Unhook extension for Chrome [0] and Firefox [1] is a great way to keep yourself from falling into the YouTube blackhole.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

It's unbelievable how effective this extension has been for me.

YouTube has become something I catch up with, just like RSS.

I love and share this view—whenever a website uses dark patterns like this to try and get me to do something I just close the website and thank them for helping me reduce my screen time!

indeed!

i only see subscriptions and videos i care about now. and through my subscriptions, i discover videos related to what i care about. they should do away with the home page all together for people who have watch history turned off.

best move ever!

It’s true! Finally no recommendations, no pushed subscriptions, no tricks to subconsciously force me to keep watching. Now if only they could do the same in the video pages.

> and even sometimes forgetting what for I came in the first place!

I do that too but thankfully I have history enabled so I just check there.

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