Anything new happened that could be allowing for ads on youtube?
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- Brave Browser version numbers
- Operating System version
Scrolling down this Brave Community webpage, to the Related issues, there are lists of reports observed by 10’s of thousands of Brave Browser users visiting YouTube … over the years.
The issue is a “running” battle.
YouTube makes some change. Brave Support makes some web compatibility / ads blocking adjustments.
Brave’s native ad-blocking engine, Brave Shields, includes and utilizes filter lists sourced from the uBlock Origin project.
Brave
Brave 1.91.178 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromium: 149.0.7827.196
$ uname -r
6.17.0-35-generic
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS”
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION_ID=“24.04”
VERSION=“24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat)”
VERSION_CODENAME=noble
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.ubuntu.com/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://help.ubuntu.com/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/”
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=“https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy”
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
LOGO=ubuntu-logo
$ uname -m
x86_64
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Dear Community Support team,
This issue as of 2026 07 03 is resolved. 
2026-07-02T23:00:00Z
And has been for a day or two before hand.
How set the status of this topic to resolved .
Thanks,
York