Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices. It still did a pretty good job of showing me stuff I was interested in watching.

Then on Oct 1, they threw up a “You’re using an Ad Blocker” overlay on videos. I’d use my trusty Overlay Remover plugin to remove the annoying javascript graphic and watch what I wanted. I didn’t have to click the X to dismiss the obnoxious page.

Last week, they started placing a timer with the X so you had to wait 5 seconds for the X to appear so you could dismiss blocking graphic.

Today, there was a new graphic. It allowed you to view three videos before you had to turn off your Ad Blocker. I viewed a video 3 times just to see what happens.

Now all I see is this.

Google has out and out made it a violation of their ToS to have an ad blocker to view Youtube. Or you can pay them $$$.

I ban such sites from my systems by replacing their DNS name in my hosts file routed to 127.0.0.1 which means I can’t view the site. I have quite a few banned sites now.

  • @j4k3English
    -11•1 year ago

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    • TheRealKuniEnglish
      18•1 year ago

      Ads are illegal bullshit. I use a whitelist firewall not an ad blocker. Any company that can not host their entire service at a single address is no different than a business selling you stuff then telling you to go pick it up on the other side of town. Forcing people to connect to 3rd party sites is the most criminal bullshit possible. That is like the grocery store saying you can’t get in the store unless you go to McDonald’s and wait in line first. You don’t have to purchase, you just need to wait in line or you can’t get inside. Alphabet should be broken up. Not google, not YouTube, ALPHABET should have everything split up for antitrust

      Oh boy. This reads like the deranged ravings of Methany from her trailer porch.

      • @j4k3English
        -13•1 year ago

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        • TheRealKuniEnglish
          15•1 year ago

          And you are the reason I am getting off Lemmy, for people that make uncalled for useless gaslight comments like this. This community has gone to absolute shit over the last two weeks.

          I don’t think you know what the word “gaslight” means. It can join the list that includes “illegal” and “criminal” from your previous post.

          Sorry the internet isn’t just people who agree with you on everything. I hope you find the bubble you’re looking for, I guess? Or that you grow up a bit.

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            -11•1 year ago

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    • @OttomateeverythingEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      Any company that can not host their entire service at a single address

      So like… Basically every website?

    • Chozo
      8•1 year ago

      Ads are illegal bullshit.

      I mean… they’re not.

      Any company that can not host their entire service at a single address is no different than a business selling you stuff then telling you to go pick it up on the other side of town.

      That’s just not how the internet works, though. And would actually break almost all address-based ad blocking, as well.

      People who don’t understand the internet shouldn’t be giving advice on how it should operate.

      • @j4k3English
        -4•1 year ago

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        • Chozo
          7•1 year ago

          It is how a honest business works

          Nope, it’s how the internet works. At all.

          If that means most of the internet does not work fine, I’ll keep my money.

          YouTube isn’t taking your money in the first place, though. Unless you’re paying for Premium, in which case ads aren’t really a concern then.