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Making the Internet Boring

https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/08/30/making-the-internet-boring/
25•zdw•2d ago

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ViktorRay•1h ago
Some more good advice:

Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.

dylan604•51m ago
Or don't login. It will still learn about you so you don't always receive the blank main page. My browser is set to clear that data, yet with a single video being played the algo is already suggesting more content.
MisterTea•50m ago
I did similar for my work PC but for the browser: turn off all the conveniences. No history in the bar so there's no way way to lazily navigate to a website, I have to manually type in the URL. Saved passwords and cookies? Nope! closing the browser wipes history.
drivers99•31m ago
> Turn off your YouTube watch history

Just to add to that, it's a two step process: disable saving new history, and then clear all history

I estimate my watch time dropped by half per day the first time I did that. Then I started curating my subscriptions better, and watching from that.

burningChrome•31m ago
On my smartphone I'm not using Google Play Services so when I open the app, all I get is the search box.

I told a friend this and told him this flips the script on the Algo. Now instead of YT telling you what to watch, YOU are in control of what YOU want to watch.

We have to start breaking this cycle somehow. This is a great way to do it.

zdw•20m ago
Or only use the subscriptions page, and never visit the home page.

Getting only the stuff you've curated is way better than the algorithm.

colincowardly•40m ago
The internet is a rich tapestry of human knowledge and experience. When I scroll Instagram, I often discover incredible new artists who present in human form. Once you start tapping like on things, the journey of discovery is almost biblical.

The secret is learning to use your tools to bring joyful moments of surrender into your otherwise mundane existence.

rglover•16m ago
Putting in blockers and the like helps, but what I've found worked best was to consider this quote by Anthony DeMello:

"When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power."

When I learned to stop feeling bad/guilty/thinking this was a problem to solve and just let my mind drift, I found that my mind naturally learned when it was disciplined work time vs. browse the internet time. Personally, I noticed that when I didn't have any artificial restriction, I was less inclined to waste time on those things.

In practice: "oh, my mind doesn't want to do that other thing right now but it does want to go look at this thing; let it." The more I've loosened my grip, the less distractions have affected my productivity.

owisd•15m ago
If you've got an iPhone/Mac I recommend Apple's free Apple Configurator tool to lock down your phone to only the set of apps you whitelist and/or route all traffic through a VPN/Proxy that whitelists only certain IPs. You can only change the whitelist when you're physically back at your Mac so prevents me impulsively relaxing the restrictions in any moments of boredom.

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