Hi, been using brave to block YouTube ads and it’s technically working but most videos will be black screen for the length of an ad or two with YouTube saying “experiencing interruptions” on the bottom left corner, and one of the possible reasons being ad blockers from what it is saying, is there an…

same here…it’s been about a week and the same thing on all my desktop/laptops. no such issues on m.youtube.com on my mobile devices. all videos load easily.

Same problem here, and I think from the amount of views this thread has gotten so far it proves YouTube is doing something to cause this. It’s not a deal breaker by any means, it’s just a little bit annoying. I’m not too sure what YouTube is trying to achieve with this, they can’t be doing it on pur…

happening here as well i hope it gets fixed

Using Brave: Click anywhere on the page with a right-click and then choose Block elements; [qwer] Move your mouse cursor over the border of the pop-up window to catch it entirely; [qwert] Click on it and then click on the Block elements light blue button that will appear on the lower ri…

Yep, it’s intentional. YouTube did this to Firefox users I want to say a year ago and it was the same popup that routes you to a page about adblockers instead of normal Internet troubleshooting like you’d normally be directed to. That’s how you know it’s intentional on YouTube’s part, it’s just to…

Thank you! I did not get an update notification, but I closed and restarted Brave and the message and the pause is gone.

If “fix out today” means: Brave 1.79.123 (Official Build) (arm64) Chromium: 137.0.7151.104 then it doesn’t work - youtube still show “interruptions” notification and adds artificial video load delay.

Try disabling your extensions. I tried that just then and one of my extensions called gener8 was causing these issues with youtube.

Experiencing interruptions with ad blocker on youtube

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fanboynz June 12, 2025, 9:00am 12

Should be resolved a fix went out today

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