When using something like pinchflat, I give myself a week for most channels to auto-delete. Other educational accounts/playlist I store indefinitely, as things like MIT and many other university courses are open licensed making them legal to download and store. It adds quite a bit of friction to my watching experience I slowed down a lot. To the point where I maybe watch ~3 hours of content/week. And I would have no shame in increasing that as I don't consume any other media, no podcasts, no tv, movies etc. You can use uBlock origin to block google/youtube links so you can't accidentally watch things. You can add this to your My Filters list ||youtube.com^$all ||ytimg.com^$all ||youtube.com^$all ||youtube-nocookie.com^$all ||youtubei.googleapis.com^$all ||youtube.googleapis.com^$all

The other thing with ytdl/pinchflat that adds friction - there is no discovery outside of word-of-mouth. Pro - can't get hooked on new channels easily Con- can't algo discover new content that might interest you Reading/writing helped me get past that. Now, if I want to watch something, it requires intent. I had to think on my own about what content would interest me, then decide if I have the server capacity to keep the channel around. Real world constraints force decisions XD