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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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[–] lud@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How does one quit YouTube?

There is just so much stuff on there and no alternative.

[–] enigmara@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

That's still YouTube though and they could and probably will shut down those.

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

This looks cool, are there any that you'd recommend from the list?

[–] WuTang@lemmy.ninja 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i disabled my history, so now youtube doesn't suggest me anything, I have a blank page. I still have my subs but blank page by default, but the good thing is I do have have to engage and if I don't know what to look for, I close the page.

ublock still work, btw.

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

Ublock is good so far for me too. If they ban it then I guess I will have more free time to spare :D

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

ublock still work, btw.

For some, apparently. For me it stopped working about a week ago.

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many channels I watch are on Nebula as well - that one is paid but it's yearly 15$ or so. You can get it bundled with curiosity stream. Some channels upload to rumble, but I am not familiar with that platform. Then there is odysee... it's kinda all over the place. There are channels that upload on odysee, but I don't like the crypto bullshit that is associated with that platform. The other thing not only with odysee but all new smaller platforms - they are a good place for all the scummy outcast that gets filtered on YT. I try not to read comments otherwise I would have to puke.

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also a happy customer of Nebula here. I've come across some pretty interesting content on there.

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

YEs and some YT creators even add bonus videos.

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

I started using RSS reader for my YouTube feed and it's much better than YouTube itself.

[–] atetulo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Do something else with your life.

You won't be able to watch the content you want on other sites until people start uploading there.