Curious if anyone else has been seeing this lately. It just started yesterday, out of nowhere, after no previous problems with Brave. UBlock is up to date, version of Brave is up to date, shields are up. Curiously, no problems on my Chrome browser or my Brave mobile browser. Running Win 10 Pro on a…

Another update: I cleared browsing data - cache and cookies - and can view videos. For some reason, the youtube menu - the one where you can navigate to your subscriptions/playlists - is not accessible for some reason. I’ll leave another update when I can’t access it anymore - if I don’t fall asl…

I just got the same problem, so it tried icognito and that worked, even when i logged into my account, so I don’t think it’s account based.

Apparently, whatever YT did, was server wide… A lot of us are here with the same problem… Hoping a fix comes soon, thanks in advance.

Yep, youtube now blocks my adblocker :confused:

I also tried switching to an account i don’t use as much, this works too, even in a normal browser.

Can confirm the workaround. I switched to another account and bypassed the blocker. I can watch. I will continue with this for a time, but would prefer to use my main.

I can’t “unban” my main account and it constantly says I can’t watch with adblocker, do you know any way to unblock account?

Seems like YT flagged accounts that were under suspicion of using AdBlocks

Ran into this issue just now, turning off shields loaded the video with no problem, and did not get an ad on this particular video.

Suddenly getting "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube"

Brave Browser Ad-Blocking

Goschie December 6, 2023, 9:41pm 215

I posted a thread on a fix that worked for me: I think I solved youtube ad block issue. HERE IS WHAT TO DO - #4 by Rub1_N

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Suddenly getting "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube"

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