Escaping the Lotus-Eater Machines
Youtube and Tiktok are the biggest time wasters of today. They are engineered for maximum engagement, keeping you hooked while offering nothing in return. It's easy to get caught in their trap and never escape, eating the lotus forever as your time passes away. Youtube can be used as a powerful tool for learning, but you have to start using it like a tool. Tiktok I'm not aware of any benefits simply because I've never used it.

First, stop using Youtube's recommendation algorithm which will keep providing you with videos meant to engage you. The easiest way to do this would be to either delete your account or to block the video links with adblock. If done right Youtube will look like a blank screen with a search bar. I've had this setting for over a month and it has cut my usage of the site from 2 hours a day of mindless watching to 2 hours per week of intentional use. As for Tiktok, just delete that shit ASAP.

How to clean your youtube recomendations.
1. Download any adblock (I use UBlock Origin)
2. In uBlock, add this line to your filters

www.youtube.com##.grid-disabled.grid.ytd-browse.style-scope > .ytd-two-column-browse-results-renderer.style-scope

For educational purposes only. In case you forgot your keys to your neighbor's house.

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The tube in the illustration is below the salt water. The tube must end above the salt water, not dipped into it.

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With this website you can bypass most websites paywalls

https://12ft.io

There’s also a Google Chrome/Brave/Opera/Edge extension:
https://github.com/nathan-149/hover-paywalls-browser-extension

You have to install it yourself because Google removed it from their store when they knew people could use it to bypass paywalls, so just follow the steps in the guide. But it’s super easy to do. Just a drag and drop of a folder into your extensions library

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If you have an Android phone, go to the developer options and set Animation Time to x0.5! Your phone will feel like it's gotten a huge processor update.



Unlock Developer Options:

Settings > About Phone > 7x tap on Build Number

Decrease animation time:

Settings > System > Developer Options > Set all Options with Animation Scale to x0.5 or less

Enjoy your fast phone

https://otter-browser.org/

From their website: "Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5." Their motto is: "Controlled by the user, not vice versa".

Otter Browser makes no unsolicited requests at all. It is fully open source. The developers, also, don't plan to include any spyware "features" in the future. This seems like a true privacy-based web browser (at least for now).

Basically a very simplistic browser, that can be used to access websites that will contain your private information. You can make it clear out the cookies upon startup, and log in into your mail, banking and so on.

Otter is minimalistic and therefore doesn't allow for advanced customization, and it's webkit is rather shy, so it might load slower than other browsers.

But still, if you want the greatest solution of all, I recommend using two browsers. One for private information (Otter) and one for casual browsing (Ungoogled Chromium).