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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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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

On PC: Click on the little uBlock Origin symbol on the url bar, then click on the little gears in the middle right to go to the dashboard, and then select the Filter Lists tab.

To begin, ensure that the first option, auto-updating filter lists, is turned on unless you have a reason for it to be off.

Then, make sure that you have ALL the ad-related filters turned on, and all the annoyances filters selected as well. Only some are selected by default so you need to look them over carefully. Look over the other filters while you're at it and turn on any others you've missed that you think you might want.

Then, once you have enabled all your desired filters, select "Apply changes" and then "Update Now" via the two large buttons at the top left of the page. You should see all the filters go from an orange triangle to something else. Export your new settings if you want a backup of what you just did, and close.

If a filter list you turned on breaks something, just turn the newly enabled ones off again OR whitelist the broken site. But honestly you shouldn't have any problems, the uBlock Origin filter lists are pretty fine-tuned these days. I have them ALL turned on, lol.

I've done this several times over the last few weeks as I've been trying out Linux distros and refuse to use Firefox without ad-blocking. Let me know if you have any problems.

[–] cor315@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We need more people like you in the world.

[–] 3migo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] 3migo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 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.

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

uBO! ublock is unrelated.