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.
The rest of the world didn't move on. I've found articles written within the week still using those terms.
It's fall. Go outside, look at a tree, and enjoy the weather before it gets too cold, instead of calling security terminology racist.
I'm going to blacklist you, go eat lunch because it's taco tuesday and I love tacos. 🌮 ❤️
Yeah only 90% of the community did. Cry me a river for that 10% with zero argument for their shitty behavior
It probably has never failed once, if someone tells me to go outside, I am outside more than that person. I will however take your advice and get tacos. Even a shitty broken clock is right twice a day.