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I've found myself using the browser version of apps (as terrible as they are) in replace of deleted apps. I'm very used to the Chrome -> search bar -> "y" -> "y

I've found myself using the browser version of apps (as terrible as they are) in replace of deleted apps. I'm very used to the Chrome -> search bar -> "y" -> "youtube.com" series of taps now.

Noumenon72 3y ago
The only problematic part of YouTube for me is YouTube shorts, which have an X button above them that hides them for a month. If you want to break the habit of going somewhere through the address bar, edit your /etc/hosts file so that address points back to localhost. 0.0.0.0 reddit.com 0.0.0.0 old.reddit.com I did this at work before I lost my sudo access and if I get a new computer I will file a help desk ticket to have them do it again.
astariul 3y ago
Same here. My solution was to use the Brave browser and setup custom filters to block the doomscrolling part of the website. I did it with Reddit and youtube, so now no video is shown in the homepage of Youtube, and no list of posts shown in Reddit. Still, I can use the search bar of youtube, and I can access single Reddit post (from a google search for example).