[surround]

But surveillance can hurt productivity, too. YouTube, for example, is really good at predicting which videos I will find interesting, and I end up wasting a lot of time. When I started using Invidious, which doesn’t track your watch history, I wasted far less time.

[betenoire]

Youtube isn't trying to make you waste less time? In this case, I think youtube would consider you to be very productive within their software/system

[jessems]

Completely agree, and I haven't thought about that angle enough.