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.

  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So… we're entitled. You're entitled. Pirates are entitled. Adblockers are entitled. Whats your point?

    Seriously what's the point of this comment? What do I do with this perspective?

    What do you even mean by "entitled" at this point? That we believe we should get something? So what? For me it's more like I "can" get something. I don't watch ads because they're literal fucking brain poison. I watch YouTube because content creators produce things of value to me on there. I pirate because I can.

    I'm not sure how entitlement even comes into play here. So I say I'm entitled, so what? What does that change?

    Do you just want to not hear us be upset when things change? When we have to pirate and adblock differently, we are gonna talk, we are gonna complain, we are gonna rabble.

    If you don't do those things… well, we're not really talking to you. You're not invited. Go be morally superior somewhere else. And that IS what you're doing: you're acting morally superior for doing the same exact thing as us but claiming that by saying "how doing so makes you an entitled little brat" you are somehow better than us. You're a really bizarre fellow.