Every time I launch a video on YouTube, I get a black screen with white letters, “An Error Occurred, Please Try Again Later.”
I learned, by accident, that if I just wait a little – maybe fifteen seconds – the video starts playing normally. So it’s not a thang, by any means. Just curious. What am I doing wrong?
I get the same thing. I think, but am by no means sure, that it is due to my ad blocker. Are you using an Ad blocker on YouTube?
Ah! Yes, definitely! That makes sense.
(Sorry for their revenue stream, but ads suck!)
I can’t say I’ve seen this with uBlock Origin. The ads just don’t play. What adblocker do you guys use?
No problem here with uBlock Origin
I use AdBlock, and don’t have that problem.
I think I had this same problem a few months ago, and then it just went away.
I’m using AVG Security, which has an ad-block function.
Ah. Those often aren’t as good as the standalone counterparts. If you’re satisfied, fine. But if not, you may want to turn off the adblock part and install either uBlock Origin or Adblock Plus. (The latter tries to keep some unobtrusive ads by default, but takes up more memory.)
YouTube has gotten really aggressive in the last couple weeks trying to get past ad blockers. Nothing I can do anymore (AdBlock Plus, AdGuard, DNS filtering, Hosts files) will stop the pre-roll ad blankout. The ads don’t actually show, but the screen is white and I have to click the “skip ads” button in the bottom right. I understand that this is affecting pretty much all ad blockers, but these pre-roll ads don’t run on every video, and I think if you’re NOT logged in to YouTube they’re still being blocked ok for now. I bet the OP’s ad blocker is choking on YouTube’s newly invasive pre-roll ads because they usually only run for 10-20 seconds and then allow the video through after that.
Occasionally this happens with me. In my case it seems to be something with my sound connection no longer working (at that point I usually can’t use the computer for meetings etc. either). A reboot fixes it - but that’s a pain in the neck.
I finally checked. Mine is AdBlock for YouTube. Might be time to try uBlock Origin.
Again, I’ve never had problems with uBlock Origin, both on my computer and on my phone (using Firefox on the phone, since Chrome doesn’t allow extensions.)
I assumed Adblock Plus would also work, as it always used to, but I can’t say for certain. I know that uBlock Origin added some extra features to deal with some more pesky ads.
(I actually use YouTube Vanced 14.21.54 on my phones more than Firefox with Adblock, but I do use the latter at times.)