Going to Google Ads setting[0] and turning off "Ads based on your interests" stopped the delay for me.
[0] https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated?hl=en
YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#32Going to Google Ads setting[0] and turning off "Ads based on your interests" stopped the delay for me.
[0] https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated?hl=en
Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#33Alternative hypothesis (assuming a bug rather than intended behavior): YouTube is testing a new ad mechanism, and the new mechanism (rather naturally) wasn't tested on systems blocking ads; it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded, rather than silently skipping it. But yeah, I do tend to watch most of my videos through youtube-dl these days, even though the HTML5 player works fine for me in Firefox with…
> videos through youtube-dl these days
how do you find the video you want without using youtube? do you just use the youtube search interface then download the video by copying the url (w/o even clicking on the link to start the video buffer)
Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#34If anyone is interested, I'm working on a free online YouTube client website that doesn't show ads, has a separate login system that allows you to subscribe to users, without YouTube knowing anything about that. I need help with building the website, so anyone doing design / PHP is welcome to contact me.
edit: Forgot to add, the website uses no JavaScript and doesn't track you at all. It also tries to implement most of YouTube's functionality, so you don't loose anything by using the website instead of YouTube.
Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#35What about the notion of something like some of us did with Flash content? I symlinked .adobe and .macromedia to /dev/null and was able to watch Flash content without the LSOs/SuperCookies being downloaded to my drive -- they were written to the bit bucket. Does anyone think it's possible to write a Perl/Python/Bash program to basically achieve the same thing? To "convince" the site the ads are coming down but they n…
uBlock is working on creating neutered version of ad/tracking scripts so that the js think that they are loaded fine and are working but they don't do anything. They are called surrogate script and noscript already uses them.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/ublock/...
Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#36Alternative hypothesis (assuming a bug rather than intended behavior): YouTube is testing a new ad mechanism, and the new mechanism (rather naturally) wasn't tested on systems blocking ads; it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded, rather than silently skipping it. But yeah, I do tend to watch most of my videos through youtube-dl these days, even though the HTML5 player works fine for me in Firefox with…
> assuming a bug rather than intentional malice lol, no malice here, it's their websites they can do whatever they want and they are far from stupid, they test all these things. I'll still block ads and if Google prevents me from seeing Youtube content so be it. I'm not going to disable my ad blocker anyway. The fight against ads is getting interesting. Let's see who gets the "last word".
Testing every combination in advance isn't possible even for large corporations, because browsers in the wild vary so much, as do the computers they run on.
It should show up in production monitoring, though.
Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#37Why? Does Adblock Plus block the on video ads?
uBlock can also do this. I suppose if the ads cannot be retrieved, the video is supposed to handle it smoothly. The only ads that cannot be blocked are those that streams over the same origin server, like Twitch's new embedded ads.
> I suppose if the ads cannot be retrieved, the video is supposed to handle it smoothly.
And if this supposition is violated, one would expect an error. I wouldn't personally have assumed that would work; it's probably the case that YouTube changed something that happens to also play ill with AdBlock (since AdBlock is basically futzing around with the content the page expects to be able to load, that should be expected).
Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#38I use uBlock Origin and youtube appears to still be fine for me. Maybe Google is targeting AdBlock first and then they'll start trying to detect others maybe? I guess this all depends if they're actually indeed penalizing people for blocking ads in the first place.
i use uBlock Origin.
and eff's privacy badger
and tampermonkey w/ anti-adblock killer reek script.
zero issues playing youtube all day long
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running
#40Alternative hypothesis (assuming a bug rather than intended behavior): YouTube is testing a new ad mechanism, and the new mechanism (rather naturally) wasn't tested on systems blocking ads; it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded, rather than silently skipping it. But yeah, I do tend to watch most of my videos through youtube-dl these days, even though the HTML5 player works fine for me in Firefox with…
> videos through youtube-dl these days how do you find the video you want without using youtube? do you just use the youtube search interface then download the video by copying the url (w/o even clicking on the link to start the video buffer)
youtube-dl can fetch a video via its ID, the part after the "/watch?v=" in the URL. Combined with a video player, such as vlc, mpv, mpc-hc or similar, you can stream youtube videos without viewing from the youtube website. There are scripts available that make this less DIY, such as ones that launch your video player with youtube-dl when you load a page on youtube, though I do not have any of those on hand to show you.