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eswat 7y ago
I actually forgot YouTube had ads until someone showed me a video on their laptop this past weekend. Was painful to watch them try to dismiss it.
- vonseel 7y ago
  I find uBlock works well at blocking YouTube ads but occasionally I get a static screen in the video player that says something like “Service not available at the moment.”. YT seems to be intermittently blocking UBO users.
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - yzssi 7y ago
    I use ubo and I've never, ever had that happen to me. My two cents.
    - vonseel 7y ago
      Disabling it temporarily always fixes the problem, so I have assumed it is due to UBO blocking something which if YT sees has been blocked enough times for a specific visitor, they will prevent video from loading, but maybe my hypothesis is incorrect. This only happens when I’m watching a lot of YouTube videos one after the other.
      - Shank 7y ago
        I seem to recall that if you disable uBlock on a site, you have to reload for the change to take effect. Is it possible that the page reload and not disabling uBlock is doing it?
  - baud147258 7y ago
    I've seen such errors, on Chrome with UBlock, but I don't know if it's coming from Ublock or from my network connection.
  - gorhill 7y ago
    This also affects other blockers.[1][2] I never reproduced such issue on my side, so unfortunately there is no way for me to investigate -- given that this affects different blockers with different code base, I suspect a filter issue. * * * [1] https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/13/youtube-shows-adblock-plus-users-an-error-message-instead-of-ads/ https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/13/youtube-shows-adblock-plu... [2] https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/6000117537-fixed-please-try-again-error-when-playing-youtube-videos https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/60001...
- sbr464 7y ago
  In addition to blocking ads, I used Adblock to remove the html for the recommended videos panel that shows up to the right or underneath a playing video. I’ve definitely noticed a personal reduction in wormhole clicking YouTube usage.
lostmsu 7y ago
Anything for FireTV? I tried DNS blocking, but that did not affect YouTube there (it runs on FF, which does not support add-ons on Fire OS).

eswat 7y ago

I actually forgot YouTube had ads until someone showed me a video on their laptop this past weekend. Was painful to watch them try to dismiss it.

vonseel 7y ago
I find uBlock works well at blocking YouTube ads but occasionally I get a static screen in the video player that says something like “Service not available at the moment.”. YT seems to be intermittently blocking UBO users.
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
- yzssi 7y ago
  I use ubo and I've never, ever had that happen to me. My two cents.
  - vonseel 7y ago
    Disabling it temporarily always fixes the problem, so I have assumed it is due to UBO blocking something which if YT sees has been blocked enough times for a specific visitor, they will prevent video from loading, but maybe my hypothesis is incorrect. This only happens when I’m watching a lot of YouTube videos one after the other.
    - Shank 7y ago
      I seem to recall that if you disable uBlock on a site, you have to reload for the change to take effect. Is it possible that the page reload and not disabling uBlock is doing it?
- baud147258 7y ago
  I've seen such errors, on Chrome with UBlock, but I don't know if it's coming from Ublock or from my network connection.
- gorhill 7y ago
  This also affects other blockers.[1][2] I never reproduced such issue on my side, so unfortunately there is no way for me to investigate -- given that this affects different blockers with different code base, I suspect a filter issue. * * * [1] https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/13/youtube-shows-adblock-plus-users-an-error-message-instead-of-ads/ https://venturebeat.com/2016/03/13/youtube-shows-adblock-plu... [2] https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/6000117537-fixed-please-try-again-error-when-playing-youtube-videos https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/60001...
sbr464 7y ago
In addition to blocking ads, I used Adblock to remove the html for the recommended videos panel that shows up to the right or underneath a playing video. I’ve definitely noticed a personal reduction in wormhole clicking YouTube usage.

lostmsu 7y ago

Anything for FireTV? I tried DNS blocking, but that did not affect YouTube there (it runs on FF, which does not support add-ons on Fire OS).