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FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts

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269 points youz | 3 comments | 23 Oct 25 21:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.503s | source
1. jfengel ◴[23 Oct 25 22:28 UTC] No.45688177[source]▶
So instead of wasting your life 30 seconds at a time, you can skip straight to wasting your life by minutes and hours?
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2. zamadatix ◴[23 Oct 25 22:35 UTC] No.45688235[source]▶
There seems to be something about the "short" approach that makes it easier to actually spend more time than you would with "longer" videos. Too much of anything is bad though, one should try to avoid large amounts of passive entertainment (my reminder to get off HN for today).

I also don't think I could ever spend 2 hours watching shorts and feel like I left with something worth having spent the time on, but I can tell you some movies or long form videos which had enough impact to carry in my memory through today.

3. noir_lord ◴[23 Oct 25 22:46 UTC] No.45688378[source]▶
Depends how you define waste I guess, I loathe shorts, I enjoy hour long deep dives into naval armour.

It’s all perspective.