YouTube Shows Adblock Plus Users an Error Message Instead of Ads

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:06AM from the you-seem-to-have-forgotten-your-eyeball-peeler dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Do you use YouTube with Adblock Plus? Some users have been getting the following message instead of ads: "An error occurred. Please try again later." The error message is only shown for the duration of the ad, meaning Adblock Plus is still technically getting the job done. But adblocking extensions typically block ads as well as remove them: For banner ads that means gaining back screen real estate on the webpage while for videos that means the content starts playing right away.

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Only a matter of time by 110010001000 · 2016-03-13 07:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

It is only a matter of time before Google tried to stop adblocking on Youtube. They were just waiting for Youtube to get all the marketshare. Next they will try to crack down on copyright violations. They didn't try too hard while they were trying to get all the marketshare.