Day 15 of 45
0 days read · no streaks, just days
Day 15 of 45 · 0 days read · no streaks, just days
Phase 2 · Break
Day 15: Turn off recommendations
“Once you turn off that and start selectively engaging with the content, things just change for good, just experiment and observe”
Sanket kept YouTube but turned off history and recommendations. You don't always need to quit; you can switch off the autopilot.
With watch history off, YouTube's home feed stops serving endless suggestions, so you search for what you came for. There is little rigorous research on this specific setting. Treat it as a personal experiment built on the same friction principle that cut app openings in the one sec study.
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- NIMHANS Service for Healthy Use of Technology (SHUT clinic), NIMHANS Centre for Well Being, BTM Layout, Bengaluru: 080-26685948, nimhans.wellbeing@gmail.com.
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