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In December 2022, I started paying for youtube premium.
The main reason: I had found some videos which helped me go to sleep, but being interrupted halfway through with a loud ad was causing issues.
After some time, this reason went away (I found other ways to get to sleep), but I kept it around because I like watching videos on my phone on the way to work, and not having to deal with ads or the video stopping when I switched to a different app was nice.
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I've been wanting to cancel it for months, constantly thinking "I'll cancel it once I get better at spending less time on it".
It's time to stop waiting. It's time to do things that I actually want to do.
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But I've realised that I've wasted too much time on youtube. I think it was a habit that grew out of a period where I only had time for an occasional short video, and couldn't engage in something involved.
But I spend too much time each day watching youtube and feeling miserable. Instead, I'm going to try and work on my hobbies and engage with fiction I actually enjoy.
Yesterday I closed most of the youtube tabs I had open on my comptuer.
And today I cancelled youtube premium.