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.
You don't know how to use ublock origin so you're abandoning the most useful and entertaining platform on the entire internet?
You’re right for now, but OP is right that Google has been actively making YouTube worse and worse. Imagine if they used their resources to make YouTube premium better instead of this bs.
Lol, what?
Just say youtube, bro.
I'd argue that YouTube actually makes the Internet less useful overall.
Whereas once upon a time I could find information in text form NKW EVERYTHING IS A FUCKING VIDEO. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!? WHO IN THEIR RIGHT FUCKING MIND WANT TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH SOMETHING HAVING TO MASH THR LAUSE BUTTON AND REWIND THR VIDEO EVERY FOR[Y FUCJING SECONDS? JUST FUCKING STOP IT. AND IF ITSCOMPULSIVE DO THE RRST OF THE WORLD A FAVOUR AND TAKE A LOJG WALK OFF IF A SHORT PIER.
I think it's nice to have both, but I get your point.
I'm mostly still able to find text explanations for what I need.
Ublock does not prevent this pop-up. Source: me. I started getting the pop-up tonight on Firefox with Ublock running. I was able to close the pop-up and watch the video without ads, but the extension does not hide it completely.