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That's been my experience. I stopped using Facebook and twitter, and hacker news doesn't keep me occupied for hours. So YouTube has taken over all that desire for content.

I don't think it even matters that most of the stuff I watch is educational, fascinating, and helping me learn new things. It affects my sleep and is still a bit of a passive time suck (like I could just be experimenting with wok cooking in the hours spent watching dozens of videos of others learning how to cook with a wok). So will check out these various extensions that remove recommendations, etc.