[jjice]

YouTube also added a shorts timer that does a more in-app version of this that you can set to 0 minutes to have it always on. It's under "time management" in the app settings. Can't do it on the website from what I'm aware.

[maxime_]

Only thing that worked for me long term. My problem is mostly with shorts, so I didn’t want to have a global timer for the whole app.

[chatmasta]

For me it’s shorts and opening new tabs from the recommended videos on the one I’m currently watching… I usually never get to them though. Luckily I don’t have tab hoarding addiction and aggressively close all tabs whenever I realize I’ve got 20+ of them open.

[chatmasta]

I use YouTube in browser, partially because that already makes it worse… but still doesn’t stop the doom scrolling :)