{"id":158413,"date":"2016-03-14T07:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T05:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=158413"},"modified":"2016-03-14T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T05:12:38","slug":"adblock-plus-users-face-challenges-with-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/158413-adblock-plus-users-face-challenges-with-youtube.html","title":{"rendered":"Adblock Plus users face challenges with YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adblock Plus users are reporting that YouTube shows them an error message instead of advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>The message \u201cAn error occurred. Please try again later\u201d appeared for many Adblock Plus users who were accessing the video website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/03\/13\/youtube-shows-adblock-plus-users-an-error-message-instead-of-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Venturebeat reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that the error message is only shown for the duration of the advertisement, which means that Adblock Plus is technically still blocking YouTube ads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdblock Plus has removed YouTube ads successfully for years, but sometime in the past week something broke down,\u201d said Ventureburn.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ad blocking<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/118031-how-websites-pay-to-get-past-your-adblock.html\">How websites pay to get past your adblock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/136522-the-death-of-online-advertising.html\">The death of online advertising<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/139442-the-war-on-online-advertising.html\">The war on online advertising<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adblock Plus users are reporting that YouTube shows them an error message instead of advertisements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,33156,2150],"class_list":["post-158413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-adblock-plus","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158427,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158413\/revisions\/158427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}