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I hadn't seen a Youtube ad in years, but now Youtube gives "An error occurred. Please try again later." on first load in Safari on a Mac with Wipr. Reloading w
by dubya 6y ago
I hadn't seen a Youtube ad in years, but now Youtube gives "An error occurred. Please try again later." on first load in Safari on a Mac with Wipr. Reloading without blockers gives ads before and every few minutes and some overlays. Miserable.
It's still easy to work around, but maybe Google's getting more aggressive about blockers.
- dimitrios1 6y agoA tinfoil hat theory I heard is that's the reason they want to push QUIC -- to give them more signals for blocking people with ad blockers. Not that I believe it, but fighting ad blockers in general is a losing battle in my opinion, eventually you will just end up blocking too many eyeballs, and your ad revenue will drop.
- ornornor 6y agoNever had an issue with Firefox and ublock origin.
- catalogia 6y agouBlock Origin in Firefox still successfully blocks all ads. Also, youtube-dl continues to work and doesn't download the ads, so media players like mpv can play youtube videos and will never show an ad.