Mindfully Browsing YouTube
Here is a technique for mindfully browsing a feed generated by a
recommendation algorithm like YouTube’s, which limits mindless scrolling
and keeps one aware of the time going into watching videos.
- Set aside a scrolling time. This is the time allowed to be spent
scrolling the main content feed. (recommend 5 mins)
- Use the scrolling time to add videos that peek interest to the
Watch Later playlist.
- Decide how much time you are going to spend actually watching.
- Watch only from the Watch Later playlist until time is up.
- Remove the videos you watch from the Watch Later playlist.
This does require a lot of discipline, might think of making browser
plugins to help enforce this idea.