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.

  • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices.

    Implying that deleting them from your view actually deleted them.

  • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    uBlock Origin is quite apt in not showing any of that. I am thankful for the creator’s attentiveness.

  • Xero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I just got this popup today too, but only in Brave, it doesn’t show up in Firefox and LibreWolf at all and I use uBlock Origin for all of them. Looks like it’s just a Chromium thing. I mainly use Firefox anyway, I only use Brave as a music player at work because I have too many FF tabs opened in 3 windows already.

  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I just got this for the first time today. I was able to dismiss it and go on to watch ad blocked YouTube on Firefox, but I wonder how much longer this will be an option. Nebula and Curiosity Stream are looking really good right now.

  • Rolder@reddthat.comEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Odd, I have uBlock Origin and it’s blocking the ads without any pop ups or angry messages

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Since I can’t read clojure: does this proxy or does it download the videos and serve them? I imagine the latter, but is there a limit? For example VPSs have tiny drives (10GB, 20GB, etc.) with a LRU cache it would be possible to use this on those things, but even on bigger hard drives, the videos have to get cleaned up eventually.

  • hunt4peas@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    PC: Install Firefox. Then install these extensions: Sponsorblock for YouTube, Enhancer for YouTube, uBlock Origins with all the filters turned on except the language filters (you can use them if you wish) and Return YouTube Dislike. Keep uBlock Filters updated by checking for filter updates once a day.

    Android: There’s Revanced. I use pre-built apks along with Vanced MicroG from RVX Lite in Telegram.

    Android TV: Install SmartTubeNext.

    Enjoy.

  • BReel@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    “You can go ad free with YouTube premium!”

    Buys premium

    youtube shows ad for paramount plus under my video

    Cancels YouTube premium.

    So anywho there’s a thing called freetube. Just saying. Idk that it’s a perfect alternative, but it’s at least one step further from googles prying eyes and grubby hands.

    • atetulo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Dang. You actually bought premium instead of installing an adblocker?

      • BReel@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I didn’t wanna maintain an ad blocker, especially since I use youtube on a bunch of diff devices. Desktop/laptop/Ps4/Tv/Ipad/Phone like, everywhere. Premium just meant no ads on any of them with no fuss or maintenance.

        Also the bonus of downloads/music/background play etc was very nice.

        Honestly for someone like me who uses youtube as much as I do, it was 100% worth the money. I just ethically can’t bring myself to pay for it now that they straight up lied and took my money without even trying to be subtle about it.

  • AlexisFR@jlai.luEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    You don’t have a choice.

    Also Ublock Origin on Firefox already bypass this.