I know this probably should go to r/nosurf alternative on Lemmy, but I can’t find one and I’m not interested in moderating one, so I’m posting here.

As the title suggests, a few days ago I deleted Youtube. Actually it’s the surperior version of Youtube called Revanced Extended, but it doesn’t really matter.

The choice for me was quick and easy, since Revanced was suffering some kind of buffering issue, which prevent it from playing the video about a minute in or so, so deleting it don’t immediately affect my life yet.

Now, whenever I want to use Youtube, I have to use either the web desktop version on my computer (which has a ridiculous amount of load time), or I have to use the mobile web version (which lacks a lot of features and doesn’t even save your video progress).

Because the web versions are so much more janky, I would theoretically have less and less tendency to just open Youtube out of boredom, thus reduce the amount of hour I use Youtube.

So far, that has not been the truth yet. I’m still using a pretty absurd amount of hour on Youtube (that has now transformed into Firefox), but with self-discipline and work, I hope this method would work in a short amount of time.

This is the same method that I have used to reduce my Discord usage, and it worked: Now, whenever I want to use Discord, I would just open up the native app on my laptop instead of using my phone, and only doing so if my laptop is not there.