A subscription feed worth using
Choose how often each channel shows up and which kinds of videos you want from them, so the feed you picked beats the one picked for you.
Coming soon.
The web isn't broken by accident. Let's fix it on purpose.
It's built to take as much of your time as it can get. That's the part we can already measure, so that's where this starts.
Your life on screens
An average 15‑year‑old in Australia has 68.5 years of life left. 20.6 of them go on a screen.
That's 30% of everything they have left, and 48% of the hours they'll be awake for. Once sleep, school, work and keeping a life running have taken their share, there's no free time away from a screen left at all.
From ABS life tables and the American Time Use Survey. How we worked it out.
What we're pushing for
To be decided.
Fix the Web hasn't launched, and none of its asks are settled. When they are, each one will be a specific change we can point at, with the evidence behind it and its sources in the open. Nothing goes up here until it can be defended line by line.
- TBD
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Our work
Villow: proof it can be better
Villow is our app for watching YouTube, on desktop and mobile. It doesn't take the algorithm away. It hands you the controls platforms won't, and makes them fun enough that you'll actually use them.
The algorithm, on your terms
We don't ban recommendations. Our YouTube extension lets you cap how many you see, how many videos you watch and how long you spend each day.
Swipe, then reflect
Swipe through what's waiting to pick what's worth your time, and rate every video once it ends: did you actually enjoy that?
See where your time really goes
What you watched, when, and how much you liked it, across desktop and mobile. Then suggestions from your own ratings, like dropping a channel you keep disliking.
Social that brings people together
Watch with friends, send them videos and see who watched, and catch what's popular in your country today, so we're not each stuck in our own bubble.
Back to real life
Creators can add a call to action to go and do something offline, and Villow can put your to-do list in front of you when you hit a limit.
Visit Villow
Villow is what we're building first. Its own site isn't up yet either.