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.

  • 3migo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    How would one do this? I use ublock origin on Firefox, but I’ve started seeing the same pop-ups on YouTube the last few days and would love to get rid of them.

      • mihnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        If you already have everything on, or just want the newest lists no matter what, use the ‘Purge All Caches’ button. It resets all the lists so it force downloads fresh copies off all of them.

      • 3migo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Sadly it looks like Google/Youtube have now circumvented Ublock again. After implementing the changes you suggested above, it got rid of the pop-ups on Youtube for me for a week, and now they’re back and I can’t get around them even after updating Ublock. Hopefully Ublock gets around these quickly.

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Gah, sorry man. For myself I’m staying logged out of Youtube at this point, and I won’t try again until a more stable fix comes along. I imported my subscriptions into Freetube, and watching either there or on Youtube but not logged in. Sorry it didn’t last.

          • 3migo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            I’m sure that it’ll just be an ongoing battle between Ublock & Youtube both updating themselves to get around the other. I’ve transferred over to watching more & more on Nebula as it’s better for the creators, ad free, and way cheaper than Youtube Premium.

    • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I had that problem as well, I had to make sure I didn’t have any other blockers/privacy/enhancer addons that changed YouTube in some way, after that, ublock worked properly again.

        • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          That still works for me. I had to disable “Enhancer for Youtube” and the Firefox-internal “Enhanced tracking protection”

          • 3migo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            You’re right. Sponsorblock still works, but I needed to disable my “Return Youtube Dislikes” extension. After that was turned off, all good!

            • Xero@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              wait, you can’t use them together? I’ve been using them using them since last year and they still work fine together

              • 3migo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Just with these latest new pop-ups that YouTube has implemented within the last couple weeks.

                They worked fine in combination with one another until that.