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.
Stand proud with the other bigots who still use “removed,” “removed,” and the N word after looking over their shoulder
I’m a bigot because I use the terms white and black list?
Don’t hurt yourself stretching that hard.
No you’re a bigot because you heard the reasoning why the rest of the world moved on and you said you don’t care. Pretty cut and dried. No reach required at all, you told everyone this freely even though no one asked you.
The rest of the world didn’t move on. I’ve found articles written within the week still using those terms.
It’s fall. Go outside, look at a tree, and enjoy the weather before it gets too cold, instead of calling security terminology racist.
I’m going to blacklist you, go eat lunch because it’s taco tuesday and I love tacos. 🌮 ❤️
Yeah only 90% of the community did. Cry me a river for that 10% with zero argument for their shitty behavior
It probably has never failed once, if someone tells me to go outside, I am outside more than that person. I will however take your advice and get tacos. Even a shitty broken clock is right twice a day.