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.

    • JineteDeAbuelas47@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This,I am now paying for Nebula since a signicant amount of creators I follow are there and when Im on yt Im pretty sure they arent making much money from me

    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Which is so sad to see. There's a lot of good channels on there (Khan Academy, ElectroBOOM, LouisRossman, etc.), but then I see some of the "lifestyle" and "educational" videos that are not so obviously right wing propaganda and it just gives me the ick. I have a Firefox add-on that opens Youtube videos in Odysee if they exist there and once I'm done watching I gtfo.