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I feel like it's the main reason I can't stop my YouTube addiction, do you guys have any ideas ?

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[โ€“] yarn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I quit reddit for a whole two years at one point. It obviously didn't work out forever, evidenced by the fact that I'm here right now. But when I did quit, I found that it sucked for the first two weeks or so, but once I started to forget about the finer details of reddit and things like that, then I just stopped caring. It's like you start to forget about what you're missing out on after a little while, or you get used to missing out and just stop caring.

So that's what I would recommend. Try quitting cold turkey and being disciplined about not checking YouTube for at least two weeks. See if the same thing happens to you, where you just get used to missing out and stop caring.