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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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[–] SirStumps@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I apologize for my ignorance but what is peertube?

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found this video explains it pretty well.

Think Lemmy/Mastodon or any fediverse platform, but solely for videos

[–] SirStumps@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Peertube is a federated video sharing tool. I think the idea is generally that you host your own videos and federate to get viewed.

If you want to check out what's generally available Sepia Search is pretty much the canonical search of federated peertube.

For an example of a general purpose instance that people can upload to, check out TILVids

For an example of a special interest instance, check out Blender Videos

[–] SirStumps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the information.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck yeah fediverse