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.

  • Selkie210
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    41 year ago

    Is there anyway to block ads if you are watching YouTube on consoles/ps5/xbox?

  • Xero
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    21 year 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.

  • @Deemo@bookwormstory.social
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    91 year ago

    Silly question if you don’t mind me asking, when you got the pop up:

    • Which browser/adblocker where you using (also did you use any custom filters)?
    • What device are you watching youtube on when you saw the block (windows, macos, ios, android, linux)?
    • Where are you located? (like which country)

    I never saw these popups just curious.

    Also my setups using a web browser (no issues):

    • (Mac OS Soma) Firefox Stable with ublock origen stock filters
    • (iPadOS 17) with adguard safari content blocker stock filters

    Setups with third part clients (no issues):

    • Revanced android
    • Smarttube (Fire TV)
    • YTLitePlus (iPadOS)
  • @Sleestak_Chaka@lemm.ee
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    141 year ago

    I use FreeTube on my desktop and Newpipe on my GrapheneOS Pixel 7, I don’t see any ads or graphic overlays. The family uses AppleTV and the YouTube app is a horrible experience with the amount of ads, even for a 3 minute video. Future project is to look into Pihole or something to block ads at the router level.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    31 year ago

    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.

  • @Mango@lemmy.world
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    -51 year ago

    Fuck them creators.

    It’s their choice to use the platform that abuses them and everyone else and their doing it because they’re spineless in the face of that money crowd.

    • Sagrotan
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      271 year ago

      And don’t forget to show your appreciation to the people who maintain that whole shebang - of course, only if you’re able to. Sending here and there 10 bucks, for example to the Newpipe or libretube team - or to your resident open source adblocker - doesn’t hurt, it’s only a few clicks and it really makes a difference.

    • @3migo@lemmy.world
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      151 year 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.

      • @Azzu@lemm.ee
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        21 year 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.ee
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            1 year ago

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

            • @3migo@lemmy.world
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              11 year 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
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                11 year 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.world
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                  11 year 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.

        • @3migo@lemmy.world
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          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.

            • @3migo@lemmy.world
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              31 year 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.

    • Zellith
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      351 year ago

      Ive had to dick around with my adblock settings once every few days lately.

    • 👁️👄👁️
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      2201 year ago

      Lol it was some Google employee’s job for months to work on this anti AdBlock method and uBlock Origin bypasses it like same day

        • @mog77a@lemmy.ml
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          11 year ago

          Adblock solutions still exist for twitch. I’m using one right now. Never seen a single ultra intrusive pre-roll or full screen ad in months. Banner ads occasionally sneak through.

          It does break every now and then for a week or so when twitch updates things, but still infinitely better than sitting through ads.

          • 👁️👄👁️
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            11 year ago

            Which addon do you use because I’ve tried like all of them. They still manage to get thru

      • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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        2961 year ago

        Don’t assume ineptitude.

        I’ve been in the position of being asked to implement an anti-feature. I made it take as long as possible to drive up the cost and designed it to be trivially bypassable because I’m not motivated to intentionally trash my own project.

        • @AssPennies@lemmy.world
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          1091 year ago

          Subterfuge at work, a fun subject to study.

          Some of my favorites from a declassified WWII “simple productivity sabotage” manual:

          • Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

          • Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

          • When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.

          • Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

          • Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

          • Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

          • Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.

          When I first saw these I was like goddamn, psyops got to my executive director!

        • @DooDeeDoo@lemmy.world
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          51 year ago

          I always thought if youtube pushes the anti ad policy too hard they risk alienating the tech people who will end up on another platform which will start growing much faster. What they do is come up with half assed ad blocking. So casual people and people on locked systems like iPhone YouTube app are forced to watch ads.

          Anyone not bothered by ads or Lacy enough will make Google money by watching ads. So they’re squeezing as much money without going too far. If they wanted to, they could have ads which would be unblock-able.

  • @K3zi4@lemmy.world
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    331 year ago

    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)

  • SmokeyDope
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    51 year ago

    good for you to go to such lengths to get their crap out of your life. I suggest odysee/lbry and various peertube instances

  • @simonced@lemmy.one
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    121 year ago

    Here is my take on this.

    First, I am with OP on this, but with mild counter points:

    • I block ads because they are intrusive, contain scam and viruses
    • I don’t want to pay YT because I am already the product, and my trust is long gone about them saying they respect my privacy
    • “Hosting is expensive” is what we hear left and right but…
      • letting people upload many hours long is not what YT was supposed to be,
      • 4K vids and up are huge, so is HDR, do we really need such fat video files/streams? I don’t…
      • for those who need 2000inch TV size quality, yeah, they want to charge those.
    • I would be OK to pay, but google will rise the price eventually and it feels like changing a contrcat I signed to begin with and I dan’t agree with that. (price raising reason are the previous points above, I am not concerned by those and I don’t see why I should pay that much)
    • I am a google pixel user, google already got some of my money anyway, which I am happy with.

    In the same vein, I wait Netflix to raise their price again (I bit the bullet twice) but there won’t be a third time.
    Same for Spotify.

    Those services should realize they are not essential, just bare useful, and should be priced as such.

    Just my 2cts.