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 ThinkPad, version 1.58.131 Chromium: 117.0.5938.92 (64-bit). Thanks.

Been having a similar issue too, except in my case it’s the “Something went wrong” monkey error message that shows up (I’m on mobile, probably why). I have tried the above brave://components fixes and they have failed too. Private tabs, Beta and Nightly both get YT to work though. My guess is, until Brave fixes this we may all just have to switch to Beta or Nightly for right now.

Yep. There’s another community thread going on about this also. Apparently YouTube is cracking down. Reloading the page lets you play the video.

Same here : “ad blockers are not allowed on youtube” I just right-click the video I want to see and then “Open link in private window” This bypasses the problem for now. But this really sucks, YouTube is attacking accounts for dollars. They should have no right seeing what browser I use. This should be private information they can’t use whatsoever. Hope this gets fixed soon!

i have not seen this “ad blockers are not allowed on youtube message” so far… Anyways i just checked loom today, and it seems they want me to get an premium account to download the video [011010101111011011000110101101001] this is very disappointing as it was showing me preparing download during the day when i finished recording … [Screenshot Capture - 2023-10-10 - 15-29-26 (1)] and now it for asks premium access… i contacted their support team by showing this screenshot but they havent responded to it yet… Anyway i will create shorter videos and make the videos to be viewed directly on this community itself as discourse seems to handle smaller 5 minutes length videos without any issues… For me the blocking is super effective, i will post in depth tutorial by tomorrow so you can DIY manually. By using this method, you dont have to WAIT for external factors to make the blocking work all the time(ad blockers updates, brave shields updates…etc), it will work as long as you follow the methods correctly. The tutorial will take some time for me to finish up as it is also dealing with recordings from loom aswell.

[image] megan.smith: this is why adblockers are not allowed on the chrome web store. Lol, that’s just untrue. [image] uBlock Origin Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

[image] Oldfan: even when I turned Shields OFF You using any extensions? That’s typically what is causing it.

Can confirm this is happening to me now as well. No extensions other than my password manager and volume app. Everything up-to-date. Started as the Ad-Blocker warning screen and I could just “X” out of it. Starting tonight the “X” has changed to a small timer before I can “X” out of it. Started to right-click on videos and choosing the “Open Link in Private Window” as a work around. Hoping I don’t get lock out of my YouTube account as I have hundreds of subscriptions and can’t find the bloodly export button at the bottom of the list anymore.

I have one trick to avoid ad detection, which may be a little bit of an annoying task. Here is what I found : 1 . Keep open the youtube in the main window with an account signed in, an adblocker removed, 2. Open a private window, 3. Copy the link of the video which you want to see from the main window to the private window, and enjoy without ads!

Today I started to suffer this when I try to watch YouTube videos: [youtube] At least I can close the message but it’s annoying of course… Using Brave Browser Versión 1.59.117 Chromium: 118.0.5993.70 (Build oficial) (64 bits) on Windows 10 as you people can see. I have installed 1 extension called “Image downloader” only. I installed it a lot of months ago so I don’t believe the extension is the fault one. :slightly_frowning_face: :slightly_frowning_face: :slightly_frowning_face:

Suddenly getting "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube"

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Oldfan October 15, 2023, 2:22pm 78

Today Oct. 15, 2023 - it totally stopped me from watching videos, even when I turned Shields OFF. Tried a few things and sent a report to Youtube. Nothing back so far.

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