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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by randomflavor »

MichaelBurge wrote: post #26

I've been amazed that adblockers work on videos since I started using them. It seems like it wouldn't be much trouble at all to simply embed the ad in the video stream. It does let people skip past the ad, but I'm not sure how important that is. If they start doing that, you could do the heavy-handed approach of re-encoding the video to show the ad(or a spot for the ad to be filled in by the server) side-by-side and…

They do have the tech.. https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/6147120?hl=en

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by jeffgreco »

kirykl wrote: post #10

I'd sign up for a low tier Red. Don't watch too many videos maybe $1/$2 month for an ad free vid limit or ability to buy instant skips

This is the only reasonable response to this news. I find it remarkable how many people expect their content for free.

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by cloudwalking »

milankragujevic wrote: post #34

If 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…

How are you going to play YouTube videos without ads?

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by cloudwalking »

milankragujevic wrote: post #34

If 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…

How are you going to play YouTube videos without ads?

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by sorpaas »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #11

Alternative 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…

> it then produces a delay if the ad can't be downloaded

That's exactly how Chinese video websites like Youku and Sohu Video work.

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by milankragujevic »

cloudwalking wrote: post #43
milankragujevic wrote: post #34

If 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…

How are you going to play YouTube videos without ads?

The server fetches the video page from YouTube, and embeds the VP8+Opus video URL into my site's page with a tag.

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by imaginenore »

milankragujevic wrote: post #34

If 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…

If you're building such a website, Google will shut it down quickly. It probably breaks some laws too (i'm not a lawyer).

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by jacquesm »

jeffgreco wrote: post #42
kirykl wrote: post #10

I'd sign up for a low tier Red. Don't watch too many videos maybe $1/$2 month for an ad free vid limit or ability to buy instant skips

This is the only reasonable response to this news. I find it remarkable how many people expect their content for free.

I guess that's a direct result of being given content for free for the better part of two decades. During the videotext/minitel days it was quite common to pay for content.

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by amadeusw »

milankragujevic wrote: post #46
cloudwalking wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are you going to play YouTube videos without ads?

The server fetches the video page from YouTube, and embeds the VP8+Opus video URL into my site's page with a tag.

Your server will probably get blacklisted for heavy usage or some arbitrary API violation. Do you have a plan to remedy or circumvent it?

Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Post by retrogradeorbit »

ardit33 wrote: post #22
TheWiseOne wrote: post #16

Do no evil, right? /s People seem to have this romanticized view of Google but this is a company that makes almost the entirety of its revenue from tracking users. Between Google, Chrome, Android, Gmail and Google Maps they have an astonishing amount of access to people's lives and most people seem none the wise to it. And yet, if another company does anything even remotely close (Microsoft with Windows 10, for examp…

They are business at the end of the day. How much are you paying monthly for the youtube/search/gmail, whatever else you are using from google? Probably, $0.00. Then how are they going to keep those services up without any ads? Also, form my understanding the Youtube Red service has no ads. If ads bother you so much, you can sing up for it, for 9.99/mo.

If you pay nothing, you are not the customer. You are the product.
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