Watchlimits: what about educational content? Introducing allowed channels

Some of the worlds best educational content is on YouTube, if it’s productive it shouldn’t count against the watch time limits in watchlimits! You are right, YouTube videos are not for entertainment only. It wouldn’t be fair if watching a lecture counted against your fun budget! To cover this need, watchlimits is releasing “Allowed channels”. It’s available in watchlimits 0.0.10 and above. How it works? There is a new section in the settings called “YouTube integration” and you can add allowed channels there....

July 9, 2022

watchlimits update: accounts and premium

The latest update to watchlimits introduces watchlimits accounts! Should you care? Maybe… Watchlimits will continue to work even if you don’t have an account or if you aren’t logged in. There is a new tab: “Account” where you can find links to create a new account and log in. You can even buy a subscription to watchlimits to use premium features. The problem is that there aren’t any premium features yet… so basically the only motivation right not to pay is to create a sunk cost to prevent yourself from uninstalling the extension :D....

July 5, 2022

Find out how much time you spent watching netflix

Are you curious how much time are you spending on netflix? Netflix is a great source of entertainment, but if you are not careful it can become a real time sink. Are you watching too much? Do you suffer from a netflix addiction? How much would be reasonable? It’s hard to decide if you don’t know how much time you are spending there now. There is a problem though, Netflix doesn’t provide stats on watch time....

July 4, 2022

How to find time spent on YouTube

Have you ever wondered how much time you spend watching YouTube on a given week or month? If you are not careful it could easily add up to hundreds of hours per year. What are people’s averages? “In March 2021, users worldwide spent an average of 1777 seconds (29 minutes and 37 seconds) per user per visit on YouTube.com“ (source). It seems to be about 30 minutes per single visit. What if you visit YouTube multiple times a day on your computer and on your phone?...

June 29, 2022

What limits to set in watchlimits?

Watchlimits has a powerful limit functionality. The number of possible limits might be a bit overwhelming though. You might be asking yourself what limits to choose, with what values? Let’s consider 3 main use cases: I don’t want to binge I don’t want to watch too much on specific days I’m ok watching a lot sometimes, but I don’t want it to add up to a lot I don’t want to binge Are you worried about watching way too much in one sitting?...

June 19, 2022