 youtube next week: It looks like you covered up your web browser with another window. Video playback is now modal. youtube in two weeks: We see that your sound is turned down. You can watch one more video at volumes below 85% before your videos are blocked. youtube in a month: Your pupil tracking score is only 0.627. Please attend our free pupillary training sessions; once your score reaches 0.95 you may again see cats frightened by cucumbers. 41 comments
 @ruba @regehr fyi there's now a popup if you use an ad blocker in selected countries this popup is already showing for me, I guess I got hashed into the unlucky experiment group https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-is-cracking-down-on-ad-blockers-2023-10       @JackEric @regehr Agreed. Hosting and streaming videos isn’t free. If they can find a way to make the service not work at all on ad-blocked traffic I can’t say I’m against it. I guess that’s not a popular stance around here but, not everything can be free. :/ There’s always things like DTube if you need it to be free. But, you’re watching YouTube because people put effort into the platform and content and can only do that because they get paid for it. @regehr one small step for Google, one giant step for #enshittification @regehr YouTube in 6 months: your google account has been suspended because someone in your household attempted to circumvent an advertisement  @regehr There’s a Black Mirror episode where people need to watch 👀 constantly to earn “points” (including eye tracking) @ciura_victor I've sometimes thought that if I should provide the electricity for netflix or whatever -- I'd either watch less or get in better shape :)  > youtube next week: It looks like you covered up your web browser with another window. Video playback is now modal. Actually, it already is against the terms of use to cover the YouTube player. For that reason, I have YouTube completely blocked. @regehr Just jumping in to say I've been using the Brave browser for watching Youtube on my laptop. I haven't seen an ad yet while using that browser. Who knows when Google will learn how to detect that browser and prevent any playback at all. I hope they don't.  @regehr So far the popup telling me YT doesn't 'allow' as blockers has had a short time delay before the X button appears and I can carry on. I anticipate the the delay will ramp up if I continue to disobey. I've installed Freetube on desktop and New Pipe on Android in anticipation. @pthane good plan. for me they already removed the delay and just stopped me from watching completely... @regehr https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/ You couldn't make it up.   I still haven't seen Youtube threatening anything due to my use of ad blockers. I hope it stays that way.
@regehr Just opened youtube to see they took a first step towards your predictions: Instead of an X, it's now a 5s loading animation icon before you can click the X (of the "adblock bad mkay" overlay) |
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@regehr I haven't run into the wackiness yet, but I'm preparing for it.