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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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[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Newpipe is still working great, I haven't used an official interface in like 3 years.

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stonemilker@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Work on Android? I feel like I had it running but it broke after an update or something.

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

It's just newpipe with sponsorblock. All you have to do is download and install the APK. I haven't done anything special with it, it's stock if that's what you mean.

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

No, you can just install it. The biggest drawback is you can't easily follow your subscribed channels. There is a way to import the list, but no easy way to update. The rest works great!

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

I'm on android. I got the app from fdroid. it's working fine.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really liking freetube, for my fellow Mac users out there

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

Also highly recommend setting up Invidious. Having a self hosted youtube frontend with built in youtube-dl and 0 ads has been a game changer

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there anything like that but instead of showing the trends, it shows what I watch most based on my subscribed channels, kinda like an algorithm or something?

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

To my knowledge it doesn't have that, but the suggested videos are pretty good. Like if I'm watching a science video, it will suggest other science videos. Otherwise I'm just subscribed to a few hundred channels and I mostly use the latest releases tab (not sure what it's officially called but it shows everything put out by your subscriptions every time you refresh it).