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.

  • Tischkante@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    YouTube messed up by not being a paid only service first and later offering an advertisement supported free tier. That way around, they’d be celebrated.

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          1 year ago

          Tell me you weren’t around for the first years of YouTube without telling me you weren’t around for the first years of YouTube

          Also not sure why you wanna price poor people out of the internet to avoid ads.

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      1 year ago

      People obviously don’t want to pay for stuff. Complaining about ads on YouTube but refusing to pay for no ads. I mean everyone thinks it’s free to host all those videos right?

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      1 year ago

      Youtube wouldn’t have been popular if it was a paid service.

      Also, they didn’t ‘mess’ anything up. The service has been profitable for years.

      This is just an attempt to make more profit off of people’s ever-plummeting standards.

      Just see how many people in here are trying to justify spending more on an already-profitable product. They’re literally just padding the pockets of executives and investors, lol.

      Ahh well. A fool and his money are soon parted.

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      1 year ago

      Paid-only YouTube would never have become what free, ad-supported YouTube is/was.

      It would never have seen the same mass adoption.

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        1 year ago

        Thats a fair assumption. I think it might’ve just taken longer, especially if the ad-supported tier was there quickly too, or even as an option from the start.