Day... 62? 63? of the YouTube boycott.
I think I've been on YouTube maybe twice in the past two months. There are still times I miss it, especially when it comes to just wanting to look up a song without sitting through 200 Spotify ads, but I feel like I've mostly adjusted to life without them now. It feels weird when I see a link to a YouTube video in a post or something. Like "uh, do I have to? can't this be hosted somewhere else?"
I've watched lots of Netflix, some crunchyroll (finally finished Yu-Gi-Oh! GX with the friendo after a year!), and lots of twitch. I've been tossed back into the job market so that's taken up some of the time I'd be filling to keep from yapping to coworkers. Between that and starting Persona 4 this autumn, the only time I think about YT is when it's time for a new Genshin patch and I'm like "ugh, okay, how can I get the patch info this month".
I've also de-googled browser wise, so I use Opera and DuckDuckGo for search purposes. DDG feels a little odd, but I was able to actually turn off the AI features, so that already gives it a huge boost over present-day Google.
Next moves... I think I'm going to check in here, see how many others are still on this boycott train. I'd like to switch to ProtonMail soon (within the next month) since I'm tired of google's arbitrary charges for space and Yahoo following suit with their space downgrade and the stupid new AI inbox redesign. And then I'm going to get super fucking hyped about Pokémon Legends Z-A coming out later this week.