I’ve noticed YouTube specifically has become more addictive, I never used to be one to sit and scroll for long durations before but I often catch myself spending way too long on shorts now

Even people or older generations seem to be getting sucked in nowadays

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      1 year ago

      I have a seething hatred for shorts. I refuse to watch anything designed like them on any platform.

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      1 year ago

      It does unfortunately. I don’t like it but it absolutely hacks my brain

      Would love if there was just an option to disable shorts in the app because I still want to use original youtube

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          Temporarily being the problem there unfortunately

          I’m not the kind of person to put up with doing stuff like that repeatedly

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              1 year ago

              The change in habit unfortunately is just not opening YouTube on my phone, which is a shame because there are good videos that I feel good after watching but I can’t resist getting drawn in by shorts.

              Typically I don’t get that problem on PC or on a smart TV because they push long form content more there