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Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ads are illegal bullshit. I use a whitelist firewall not an ad blocker. Any company that can not host their entire service at a single address is no different than a business selling you stuff then telling you to go pick it up on the other side of town. Forcing people to connect to 3rd party sites is the most criminal bullshit possible. That is like the grocery store saying you can't get in the store unless you go to McDonald's and wait in line first. You don't have to purchase, you just need to wait in line or you can't get inside. Alphabet should be broken up. Not google, not YouTube, ALPHABET should have everything split up for antitrust

Oh boy. This reads like the deranged ravings of Methany from her trailer porch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ads are illegal bullshit.

I mean... they're not.

Any company that can not host their entire service at a single address is no different than a business selling you stuff then telling you to go pick it up on the other side of town.

That's just not how the internet works, though. And would actually break almost all address-based ad blocking, as well.

People who don't understand the internet shouldn't be giving advice on how it should operate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any company that can not host their entire service at a single address

So like... Basically every website?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait until they hear about DNS root servers