nobody prolly cares but just posting this for the record

Google and YouTube, either together or apart, have finally succeeded in hosing EACH OTHER'S operability today, simultaneously. ;/

Sure... they gotta get the ads. Sure I click on some ads for 'em. Fine.

But they've figured out how to make sure things don't work (for the most part) if you don't wanna see ads alla time...

- Gradually (it seems) they have been infiltrating the AdBlock stuff... first absorbing AdThwart (the alternative), then killing it. Then they kept updating AdBlock so now it's barely effective any more... at least I can't use it, as of tonight.

- And then Google, LOL, arrgh, they've been slowly implementing the new sign-in sign-out interface at the top right of the page, so that it's not a basic usable link any more... and as of tonight, they completed the task of making it unusable too. :P eeeesh.

I use a Script Blocker in FireFox to keep malware away, and luckily they haven't absorbed and defunctionalized that (and I hope they won't) ... :|

So now, to login/out of Google I've gotta give it temporary script permissions.

And to use YouTube, I've gotta see some of these blecch ads.

Do advertisers ever realize that annoyance can backfire on them? I've boycotted products for years that had ads that were so annoying/pervasive that they deserved it. Goofballs.

bleh.

---

p.s. The reason for the title is that I do realize most people might not even notice this stuff happened because they are using the latest stuff and seeing the annoying ads. Hey... if you have a more effective method of getting around these two recent annoynaces, plz plz plz do tell.... Thanx! ^v^