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YouTube Rolls Out New Tools To Help You Stop Watching (techcrunch.com)
At its Google I/O conference this week, YouTube announced a series of new controls that will allow users to set limits on their viewing, and then receive reminders telling them to "take a break." "The feature is rolling out now in the latest version of YouTube's app, along with others that limit YouTube's ability to send notifications, and soon, one that gives users an overview of their binge behavior so they can make better-informed decisions about their viewing habits," reports TechCrunch. From the report: With "Take a Break," available from YouTube's mobile app Settings screen, users can set a reminder to appear every 15, 30, 60, 90 or 180 minutes, at which point the video will pause. You can then choose to dismiss the reminder and keep watching, or close the app.
Also new is a feature that lets you disable notification sounds during a specified time period each day -- say, for example, from bedtime until the next morning. When users turn on the setting to disable notifications, it will, by default, disable them from 10 PM to 8 AM local time, but this can be changed. Combined with this is an option to get a scheduled digest of notifications as an alternative. And YouTube is preparing to roll out a "time watched profile" that will appear in the Account menu and display your daily average watch time, and how long you've watched YouTube videos today, yesterday and over the past week, along with a set of tools to help you manage your viewing habits.
Also new is a feature that lets you disable notification sounds during a specified time period each day -- say, for example, from bedtime until the next morning. When users turn on the setting to disable notifications, it will, by default, disable them from 10 PM to 8 AM local time, but this can be changed. Combined with this is an option to get a scheduled digest of notifications as an alternative. And YouTube is preparing to roll out a "time watched profile" that will appear in the Account menu and display your daily average watch time, and how long you've watched YouTube videos today, yesterday and over the past week, along with a set of tools to help you manage your viewing habits.
Too bad the take a break message doesn't include an affiliate link to a Kic-Kat Bar.
The increase of YouTube ads getting through my ad blockers has been enough for me to avoid the site.
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The message should read "Give your wrists a rest" or "Slow down or you'll go blind" ...
Thank You. I will be here whole weekend.
Most YouTube content is all the reminder I need stop watching.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
...when we turn it off. Seriously, the best way of slowing down a binge watch aside from an internet outage is to stop it from auto-playing.
Besides, it gets old to have to re-re-re-re-re-turn it off again-again-again.
(yes, there are extensions for this, and I do use them)
I thought that as in old tv that break is called comercials ... recently yt is showing them every 15min
The laggy-as-hell html5 player and helped me stop watching.
Browsers have had video support built in for at least 20 years now.
Congrats on reinventing a square wheel, youtube.
One thing for sure everybody who sees it reacts in some way or another
YouTube:"We are rolling out plans to help users limit watching videos and to stop viewing them."
Advertisers:"How does this help you get money from us? Our ads wouldn't get viewed as much..."
YouTube:"UMM..."
Interesting.. does this constitute a tacit admission that the product (YouTube videos) might possibly be harmful in large amounts? Is this like a product warning on cigarettes?
how about a setting "I do not want to see recommendations". people are asking for this for years but somehow Youtube is not interested in implementing it.
Then perhaps I would watch something on YouTube, instead of using it as a music player in the background.
So they just bring out a politically correct tool to pretend they do something about controls...
How about new tools to filter out or in stuff by categories? For instance, I only use my private youtube for IT related things...or then give me different views I can select at will, like the IT view and the music view.
Youtube without logins does not interest anybody, only trivia popular trash.
Also listening randomly to music is virtually impossible any song marathon will converge itself to trash like Meghan Trainor.
Please do something useful and give me more controls were I can define IT+no music+no football
Just gives us a way to turn off the "Suggested Videos" pane that shows up below the video.
so it'll be done after the video instead of continuing endlessly...
"Help you stop watching"? I thought that was what the incessant yammering about YouTube Red was for. Google is fucking crazy if they think people will pay $10/month for their useless content
Here's an old trick: Make your self a rule that you can't watch a video longer than half as much as the one you just watched.
But what if I want to watch every new Trump / Cohen / Mueller related videos as soon as they are uploaded ?