I Fixed YouTube !

Okay, hold still. Hold still. What? Attention's dropping. Attention's shot. Oh no. Oh no. You got algo brain. Hit him with a Reddit story with Minecraft parkour in the background. Is that helping? Still hit him with one of those crafting videos where you just go, "Hey, what the what the heck are they doing over there?" STILL DROPPING. MY GOD, YOU'RE WORSE THAN I THOUGHT. Five Tik Tok instances autoscrolling. Three audiobooks playing at the same time and seven memes, feet related memes. Oh, okay. Now I have your attention. Okay, we found your baseline. Thank you. Hello. Now that I have your attention, I can finally give you the cure. Your brain has gotten messed up from the algorithm in ways you don't even understand. I know cuz I used to be the same. But I managed to escape the algorithm. Touch my computer. That's right. You may touch that. Disgusting. And I get it. Who cares? Another one of those. Hey, I quit the internet. Look at me. What's interesting about this is isn't that it happened. is it's that it happened by mistake. I didn't mean to do it. It just sort of did. And you know what that means? That means there's a cheat code. There's an easy way out. And I will share this cheat code with you. Not so fast. Always instant gratification. Huh? You got to wait. Hit him with more feet. No, I'm just kidding. We all have algo brain and to certain degrees. It's okay. I call it algo brain, but in reality it's just that I think being online messes with your head. I think it's just a price that we have all come to accept. But I say no more. No more. Cuz we all know the internet is bad for you. But then why are we here? Just to suffer? Why are we I'm standing here stress levels down? Are we stressing? Do I look like Do I look like I'm stressing right now? What are we stressing about? Huh? What's so goddamn important? My brain synapses are firing again. All three of them. I feel I feel like I'm six foot right now. Not to exaggerate or anything. I am memeing, but I feel like I have something to share for once. Okay. And I will yap just so just so we're clear, but I have the cheat sheet code. I have the sheet code. It's a type. I I didn't know how to hit you. I'm sorry. To get to the cure, we have to understand the disease. So, what's the problem then? I think the problem lies with our limitation in our brain. Or should I say not limitation. I read a book about our brain one time. I learned that there are certain elements to your brain that are just it's just hardcoded. Okay, there's just no way to get around it. But there are also elements that can be trained like your attention span. And because of that, that also means it can degrade. And because tech companies, these goddamn tech companies are their metric of success is how much attention they can suck out of you. And that means it's a raise to the bottom. That's why clicking a YouTube video is like getting shot at in a shotgun. Point blank rage. Like, bro, chill. That's why the more time you spend online, the more alrain you got, the more sucking has happened to you. 5,000 engineers is going optimize his retention. And that job has been passed down to me. I didn't ask for this. The whole success of this YouTube video is how much I can keep you engaged. What happened to just simple old clickbait? I got to engage people now. I I was ready to give you the cheat code right away, BUT THE ALGORITHM SAYS, "LOOK, IT'S NOT MY FAULT." BUT I'm telling you, you got to free yourself before it's too late. I'm standing here 611 practically. Not to sound like a boomer dad again, but I am concerned for how how this is affecting especially the kids. Did you know that Gen Z has the lowest cognitive performance ever? Or the first time it went down, we would always become smarter. Who can blame them? Look at the environment we're in. I get that argument, the counterargument. It's like, well, they're better at playing Minecraft. It's like, okay, cool. Games when I was a kid was fun. Now look at Roblox. The biggest game for children has microtransaction in it. That's weird. Now there is short form content. Hooray. EP. And just so we're clear, I am fun person. I like a meme. I like a like a shirt. But now what I am not okay with is AI generated shorts which is being created. So we got consumed with no intent. Created with no intent. Congratulations. We've industrialized nothingness and it's just getting worse. You got to free yourself before it's too late. I'm like a Morpheus Morpheus right now. This is your moment, bro. I'm here for you, bro. I want to make it clear that everything I say in this video is okay to indulge with. If you want to play Roblox all day, knock yourself out. But the key is intent. That's what matters. Intent matters. If you go around your life not making your own choices, then who the heck are you? You are your choices and your actions. That's what shapes who you are. We understood this from philosophy thousands of years ago. But if you don't even make a choice and just let algorithm dictate your life, you got like the MIB alien in your brain steering. Classic example, I used to catch myself all the time being on my phone without intending to and I get so pissed off and I'm like, "What the fuck?" I forgot. It's like you opening the fridge to me. Same thing. I find myself just spending wasting time and I'll be like, "I did not want to do this." If you want to do this, that's good for you, but I don't want to do this. But I found a cure. But I found a cure. And a lot of it is going to sound crazy, but you got to hear me out. It's a stepbystep process. And I'm not saying you have to do all of it, but you should do some of it. For me, the solution started with my deleging video. That's not to say Google is the whole problem with everything. Clearly, I failed with my deing. I'm still on YouTube. And full transparency, I still use Google Maps. It's too good. It tracks traffic too good. Okay. What What I was supposed to do, I tried using like a rapper for it, but then they banned that. So, thank you Google for smuggling again. I CAN'T THERE'S NO ESCAPE. I wanted to remove all the tracking and telemetry. So, I put all those apps that I didn't really trust in a second profile. Social media, anything attention hungry, it went on the second profile. And I swear to God, I cannot understate how much that has changed my life. Those five to 6 seconds that it takes for me to switch over to the other profile stops me every time from going, "Hey, is this is this what I want to be doing?" People get dumb phones to stop themselves from wasting time on their phone. But really, that's all you need. You just need a little bit of friction. Now, my phone is what I want it to be, a device that serves me, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. I'M NOT THE PRODUCT. When you do head over to the other side, the dark side, or I should call it the rainbow sucking attention side, it's so obvious what's going on. Like, everything is so desperate for your attention. Since my phone and text messages and email and all that is on the main profile, I always have to swap back. Anyway, you should do this. You should do this. The second thing I did was self-hosting. YOU GOT TO SELF-HOST, MAN. THEY'RE COMING for you. The effect that self-hosting did on me was that I am not the product anymore. What the things I use are mine and because they're not free, I'm not paying with my privacy or getting algo. I think the main difference is that ads and news don't reach me. It's hard to explain the effect that this has on you without actually experiencing it. I'm one of those people that believe how much the subconscious affects you. Even if you are not actively processing information, just the fact that it exists in your peripheral messes with your head. All these services going, it messes with YOUR HEAD, MAN. I'M LIKE, even if you're not actively clicking on all these you still see it. And I still think it messes with you. Self-hosting, I'm just here vibing. It's me and the tools I use. Nothing else. No noise. That's why I'm proud for today's sponsor, which is Hostinger. If you're looking to self-host, you can rent a VPS, which is basically like a a strong computer in the cloud, available 24/7. If you think self-hosting is difficult, they make it so simple for you. You get Docker, which is like an app store for free self-hosting stuff. You want to host your own kind of Netflix stuff, one click, bada bing, done. Now you own it. CONGRATULATIONS. IT'S MINE NOW. I OWN THAT. WHAT'S great about it is that it's available 24/7 and no matter where you go. I still use my Steam Deck to self-host, but certain services are just better to host on a VPS. I host my website on there. Look at this beautiful thing. 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I don't have to de Google everything, okay? But I hate how shorts is everywhere. I can't escape it. I search there's shorts. Homepage shorts. I go to someone's channels, shorts, it's just shorts. the shorts. I don't want to watch a short all the time. If I was running a website, I would I want to empower my users. Google CEO. Hello. Why can't I disable if I I want to? Why? Well, I took matters in my own hands. My last video, I trained my own AI and I was testing out what it could do. And so, I gave it a super simple task of just writing an extension to block shorts for me. And bada bing, bada boom. Ah, beautiful. And then I was like, oh, wait a minute. Let's keep fixing YouTube. No more homepage as default. Are you seeing this? This is so nice. Let's watch Jackepptic guy. That's gate with some C4. So, I have to get a detonator. No sidebar with recommendations. It's just the video. Let me do a comparison. Oh, shorts. You want to watch shorts? Oh, you won't breaking those. You won't break a news. You want more shirts actually and a sponsor. Oh, you wanted to go to the comments? No, you have to scroll through all these videos to get to the comments. Look at this. This is ridiculous. Goodness gracious. This is crazy. I fixed YouTube. My subscription box. That's what I want to see. Not just random algorithmic choices all the freaking time. Not this how to pick me. Pick this video. Pick this video. No, the subscription box which I chose and then all of a sudden ah please YouTube as I enjoy it connecting with people being entertained by them learning from them not this sporadic schizophrenic experience to be online like my god it's so jarring when I turn it off I'm like oh god is this what it used to be like maybe this whole thing is just a me thing okay I'm telling you man now I found out someone has already done this so I'm going to link theirs and you can just instantly do it. But yeah, I fixed YouTube. You're welcome. Next, I unfollowed everyone. You don't have to do this. This is definitely a me thing. I just got really fed up. And I do think it's kind of funny because remember the congressional hearings with Facebook where Zuckenberg lked being a human. Well, what came out of that, in case you didn't know already, was that 10% of all social media on Instagram is social. 90% is just A bunch of information fed to you by a machine that don't know you and don't care to know you. I'll take you. I always had this idea that I had to be on social media. I have to otherwise how am I going to connect with my friends? Meeting up with them. I don't do that either, but I'm just kidding. Maybe just talking to them. Maybe just ask them what they are doing instead of stalking them like a weirdo. It's okay to share stuff. That's fun. I get it. But maybe not everything. I don't I know. I don't know, man. It just had the effect that I don't even bother to go because like what the what am I going to do? Look at memes. Although I have delegated that task to Marcia. She shows me memes now. So that's another way to do it. You just find someone else and they do the work for you. I do think it's funny cuz I I quit Twitter a few years ago because I just thought it was getting too toxic. And then people would come to me and be like, "Yeah, yeah, Felix is real bad." Anyway, it's like why? WHY? NO ONE'S forcing you to be on this website. I feel like everyone has this idea that you have to be on social media. You don't have to be on social media. Next, get a DNS blocker. It's kind of the same as YouTube thing that I did where you block a bunch of stuff only that it does it on a network level. So, you can remove ads, you can remove websites, none of it even reaches your device. I think that it's kind of insane now that I think about it. You probably have done this too. We grew up on the internet unfiltered and we are still unfiltered internet. I'm not crazy, man. But that's crazy. I forgot to mention, you can also host a DNS on your own. So, if you're using HostGator, for example, they make it easy for you to set it up. You'll have a DNS blocker anywhere, which you should have. Anyway, last but not least, I'm not a productivity person, believe it or not. I don't even think it's real. It's just a feeling that you give yourself. It doesn't matter what you do. If you want to play games all day, browse social media all day, whatever, it doesn't matter. But I think what matters is that you choose to do it. And I think a lot of times we don't want to admit that maybe some things isn't our choice. I still doom scroll because sometimes I'm just tired. But I replace it with my own list. I host my own RSS feed. It's what I pick to doom scroll. Okay? I can still make that choice. Different websites that just isn't that bad to me. Bookmark, blog post, whatever. I think you owe owe it to yourself to take some time today and start building your tech fence. That's what I'm calling this tech fencing. These tech companies don't care about you. So, you're going to have to start caring about yourself. I care about you. That's why I'm making this video. So, the cheat sheet code is basically build some friction. It's that simple. Let your brain catch up and make the choice yourself. And also filter out the noise. That's your defense and that's your cure. Now you understand the disease. You are free. Yes, that's my new outro. Just kidding. Rough fist. Let's get real for a second. The internet is worse than ever. Everything is free. Free apps, free services. But remember, if it's free, you're the product. And companies have taken full advantage of this. Your name, your phone number, your address, your relatives, your shopping habits, they trade this and sell this. And you might be like, I don't really care. Whatever. They make money of your data. And it's not just like a little bit either. You're worth a lot more than you think. 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