For anybody struggling with YouTube in particular: Deactivating the YouTube watch history dumbens (?) down the algorithm for that account.
It makes breaking away and out of the YouTube cycle easier.
I don’t know if this hasan effectin YouTube shorts though, that still feels like addictive af, so I stay away from them.
Video suggestions still fit the user but are less perfect and clicking the next video feels less like crack-cocaine.
Goto: settings-history& something else-you might have to login now-the history toggle should be the first site that pops up
PS: my phone died while composing this comment and I thought I gotta find the post after restarting to send the comment because maybe it helps someone
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