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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Not trying to force. You select YouTube Red or ads by raymorris · 2016-03-13 09:45 · Score: -1, Troll

> They can't force me to watch the ads, because they can't force me to watch their content.
They're not trying to force anything. They're giving you a few options - if you choose to use their service (of course you can choose not to), then you can either pay $9.99/month after free 30 days, or you can "pay" by seeing ads. I'm not sure how "be a crook" is a justified fourth option here.