How to study with YouTube without getting distracted
Block YouTube but allow your course channels: their videos play, Shorts and everything else lead back to your goals.
What the video shows
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Block YouTube in Redirect, and add your course channels as allowed channels. Their videos play as normal.
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Shorts are covered by the same rule, so a quick break never turns into an hour.
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Anything else on YouTube takes you to your goals.
Read the transcript
You need YouTube for lectures, but the recommendations have other plans. Here is how to keep just the useful part. Block YouTube in Redirect, and add your course channels as allowed channels. Their videos play as normal. Shorts are covered by the same rule, so a quick break never turns into an hour. Anything else on YouTube takes you to your goals. Get Redirect at heyredirect.com.
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