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Zeak
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YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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ABP has worked great in the past but now is giving me some trouble on YouTube.

ABP still blocks the ads, but YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" for the duration of the ad then plays the video. This is very much unwanted and essentially defeats the purpose of running ad block on YT. I'd like to see this fixed!
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mapx
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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It's something wrong in your system, does not happen to all the users.
Give us the details of your installation:
- chrome version
- ABP version
- filter lists
- check your custom filters and remove all YT filters (if any)
- clear cache + cookies
- disable all other extensions, keep only ABP and test again.
- if you disable ABP the videos are running fine ? (even if with ads)
Zeak
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Chrome 49
ABP ver: 1.11
Filter lists: Adblock Warning Removal List, EasyList with "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" enabled
No custom filters

If I disable ABP ads run fine

EDIT: This is incorrect, issue still occurs. Re-enabling ABP (Refreshing it of sorts) seems to have fixed the issue
Last edited by Zeak on Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Zeak
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Never mind, it didn't solve the issue.
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mapx
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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what about
- clear cache + cookies
- disable all other extensions, keep only ABP and test again.
?
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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EDIT: Doesn't work either. I discovered that I had the YouTube Chrome app installed and removed that. It hasn't given me issue yet. I'll update if it continues to occur.
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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I had same problen till this evening, also though that it's ABP problem.
Turned off all extensions, then turned them on, and it's looks like the problem solved
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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garfeeld wrote:I had same problen till this evening, also though that it's ABP problem.
Turned off all extensions, then turned them on, and it's looks like the problem solved
see also if you have the YouTube Chrome app
type
chrome://apps/
in the address box
if you see it, right click it, remove it
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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mapx wrote:
garfeeld wrote:I had same problen till this evening, also though that it's ABP problem.
Turned off all extensions, then turned them on, and it's looks like the problem solved
see also if you have the YouTube Chrome app
type
chrome://apps/
in the address box
if you see it, right click it, remove it
done. Thank you :wink:
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Time ago it was a problem with YT app (which wrongly interferes with the api used by ABP), probably it happens again
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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As edited, still occurs after removing the YouTube app

Stopping all other extensions also does not fix the issue
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Zeak wrote:As edited, still occurs after removing the YouTube app

Stopping all other extensions also does not fix the issue
well, did you clear cookies + cache ? please answer all my questions and don't edit the posts, just add new posts.

if still happens after clearing cookies / cache, reset chrome, install ABP and test again.
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Clearing the cache seems to work thus far (though it really sucks to log back into everything...)
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Nope, that doesn't fix it either. Issue still occurring after clearing the cache
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Re: YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

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Interestingly, the same error happens with other ad blockers
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