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.
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I got this notification today for the first time. I cleared the catche on my filter lists and it seems to have solved the issue - for now.
Fake
Use alternative yt front ends? YT Vanced, PipePipe, YMusic, and so on…
Firefox with exentions or on PC?
I have not seen any of this on my end, my IP does get blocked though, I just change it.
I wonder how they are rolling it out.
Thanks to this comment I discovered F-Droid and downloaded PipePipe
You are welcome!
I reckon they’re rolling it out bit by bit. So as to not upset everyone at once. Though I feel there’ll be a work around anyway.
This will just get us to take that one extra step. I know so many people that have never heard of ad block! And this is going to affect those that will stop at ad blocking extensions and give up when that doesn’t work.
Exactly. Meanwhile in this post there are people begging others to turn off Adblock and sub to YT premium for creators sake lmao
As if handing Google your money helps creators, nobody owes anyone a damn ad view let alone multiple unskipables
I’d honestly get on board with services like nebula assuming they had support for third party clients.
True.
Many will help the people they like with donations and other ways instead of helping Alphabet (google) and the like.
i’ve still never seen this message outside of a screenshot; ublock origin in firefox (including tor browser, just need to hit the new circuit button sometimes) still works fine as of today. and so does yt-dlp.
the fact that some ad blockers are seeing this is a bad sign though :(
I either pay to use the app or I get ads that pay for the platform to continue being used but I don’t want to see the ads so my ad blocker blocks the ads.
A company is going to continue making revenue. I don’t know why anyone is shocked by a company that makes ads changing a site to ask you to view more ads. Genuinely baffled that users waste their time complaining about something a big trillion dollar company owns and actively runs changing their platform to continue making them trillions of dollars then getting on here and going, “take that Google I am fed up.”
Meanwhile, I have just been paying for YouTube premium with no ads supporting the content creators I love and moving on with my life.
EDIT: These comments are why Lemmy isn’t growing.
https://revanced.net/ (Android)
For windows or linux just use Brave browser.
No more ads, no more adblock detection.
You’re welcome.
What browser was this on?
Firefox + ublock origin is the way forward.
However, as a teacher, my school IT system default browser is chrome, and adverts on YT videos when you’re trying to teach a lesson can really suck all the momentum and attention from the class.
Chrome allows you to save javascript as a bookmark URL called bookmarklets. I’m not so clued up on java, but I found this code that zips through the adverts super quickly. Someone can probably improve on this;
javascript: var v = document.querySelector(‘video’); var t = 16; v.playbackRate = parseFloat(t)
It’s working perfectly in Safari, loaded up with ad blockers and Vinegar. I’m streaming ad-free tropical 4k jungle sounds from my Mac Mini as we speak.
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the battle between ad-blockers and ad-blocker-blockers is eternal. adblockers will adapt.
if i block ads, it’s only fair that google tries to block my blocking of their ads. calling this “enshittification” is silly, they didn’t make their product worse they just are doing a better job of enforcing the rule that’s always been there.
Sometimes I forget people like watch YouTube on purpose. I pretty much exclusively use it for music that’s not on Bandcamp, short clips of old shows, and the occasional guide for something that’s too visual to be described well in words.
Old man out of the loop, yells at clouds.
I finally bit the bullet and switched from Chrome to Firefox last night after they flagged my adblock for YouTube as malware and forcefully disabled it. Fuck that noise.
On iOS I use uYou Plus loaded with SideStore. No ads, you can save videos and more.
