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.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ads for YouTube keeps YouTube free and YouTube being free is good for everyone

    Sorry you have to watch a 30 second grammarly ad every 45 minutes or whatever.

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      1 year ago

      If only it was that infrequent. There have been times where my friends send me a dumb two second meme video and the ads are longer than the actual video.

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        1 year ago

        So fuck poor people then, because ads are inconvenient when you’re trying to watch some sick meme vids.

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          1 year ago

          So fuck poor people then, because ads are inconvenient

          “You’re making me pay for things? You hate poor people”

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            1 year ago

            Yes, that’s how that works.

            Making free things subscription based hurts the poor. That’s why radio has ads, and legislation forces cars to not abandon AM radio