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’ve had the opposite issue. I’m so turned off by the tracking and every app containing the equivalent of a signed agreement to scan your blood and DNA. No thanks. I’ll stick to boring old Linux where my computer does predictable things, except for when I go rooting around in .bashrc 😅

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      1 year ago

      I relate to this more than op. I pretty much only use lemmy and discuit, and then twitch and discord for gaming. And I spend way less time on them than i did on reddit. Youtube has never been my thing. I hate being talked at by some try hard asshole trying to get me to subscribe to their mediocre channel. And the community there feels like it’s mostly people under the age of 16. No thanks. In general, the enshitiffication is real, and it’s pushing me away.

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      1 year ago

      Duck duck go released an anti tracking feature for Android that stops all apps from mining your dara.

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      1 year ago

      That’s great for you, unfortunately that is not the case for most of the world