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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.

by eswat 7y ago

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.

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.

by 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.

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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.