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.
Yeah there’s a fuck ton of nazis on lemmy. I once got heavily downvoted for explaining why I censor the world r— which is about as mask off as you can get. Because “because it causes genuine physical pain” is an extremely reasonable stance to take. Hell just yesterday I reported a comment that literally said “America was rightfully conquered” which is blatant genocide denial and that comment is still up.
The most fucked up thing about that is it’s STILL better than reddit, because on reddit they just outright ban you for having left-of-center prospectives. For all of lemmy’s faults, at least the mods aren’t out there to push an agenda though passive protection of fascists and active suppression of antifascists. I have yet to see anyone get banned or censored for saying that fascism is bad, though a few instances do occasionally remove a comment under respect rules for using nazi as a pejorative, that’s nowhere near the level of shit you get from reddit for doing the same. Only really downside from reddit is that Lemmy lacks rules or tools to defend against vote manipulation which becomes very clear on certain posts. You can block people and even report their posts, but you can’t really remove their votes.
I’m just going off good faith that the team are going to figure out ways to deal with the huge influx of pedo-nazis coming from reddit.
Rabbit? Rotate? Ribald? Rapacious? What are you trying to say?
Well this is depressing. I guess I was naive to think there could be one part of the internet that didn’t have many pieces of shit.
Yeah my standards are rock bottom at this point. The way I see it, let people say whatever shit they believe so I can block them. There’s millions of people out there, while it may be hard the onus is on me to sift through the filth and find the people worth spending my time with.
I think that’s the right take. I have been letting a little piece of me die every time I block a scumbag but I really don’t need to do that I suppose.