[kirill5pol]

The YouTube addiction is definitely real... but it's quite sad since mixed in with the entertainment it's one of the best sources in the world for education (video lectures, how tos, etc)

One thing that worked well for me is having two separate profiles, one for educational and one for everything else. That way the education one didn't get as polluted with the most addictive recommendations

(little self-promotion) One thing I found to be useful was to try to focus on learning more actively, so I built a tool that turns educational videos into mini-courses where it will ask you questions about the content and then use spaced repetition to help you actually remember the information.

One of the other parts is to ensure that the suggestions/feed is focused solely on education, and that you don't fall into the addicting videos trap... (I have the v1 but still working to make this better)

But I think if the addiction is bad enough as in the post, it's probably a better idea to go cold turkey

(link is https://www.platoedu.org)