I think it is not a problem from Brave devs but from Google. The day has come. YouTube not working at all unless disabling Brave Shields.
Please give ideas to bypass this…
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Do you have other extensions installed?
If you access Youtube from a Private Window, do you see the same experience?
Yes I do have other extensions.
Wow, funny. YouTube not working in Private Window. Why is this happening?
Hi, Welcome (Back) to the Community @g3ck0!
If you want further assistance I’d suggest providing more info. You haven’t indicated your Device/OS or Brave Version, no category, no tags, no template.
Recommended Template to fill out further down/attached. Copy/paste, don’t use quote function. I recognize you have answered one or two things from it but obviously more info would be helpful.
Also a search and other Topics to check out:
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Description of the issue:
Exact URL of the website in question:
Did the issue present with default Shields settings? (yes/no)
Does the site function as expected when Shields are turned off?
Is there a specific Shields configuration that causes the site to break? If so, tell us that configuration. (yes/no):
Does the site work as expected when using Chrome?
Brave & Chromium Versions (check Brave Settings > About Brave & Copy/Paste):
Device, Operating System & Version (check System About Section & Copy/Paste):
Just pointing out some helpful information for future reference and making it clear that more info is necessary, OP hasn’t shared much, so I’m just sharing what they can do to help themselves. Mattches occasionally sends Guidelines out (e.g. Here) and tells people to redo their post as well to people who don’t share much info so 
I’m just trying to save him some work and again guide users to help themselves some more.
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Description of the issue: YouTube not working unless disabling Brave Shields
Exact URL of the website in question: https://www.youtube.com/
Did the issue present with default Shields settings? (yes/no): YES
Does the site function as expected when Shields are turned off? Yes
Does the site work as expected when using Chrome? Yes
Brave & Chromium Versions (check Brave Settings > About Brave & Copy/Paste): v 1.84.139
Device, Operating System & Version (check System About Section & Copy/Paste): Windows 10 Pro 22H2
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Occurs in new fresh Brave Profile, in Brave Beta or Nightly I don’t know, I’m not a huge fan of those…
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Still working for me fwiw. Same build, shields up. I did have to disable ublock origin on the site though
This makes it sound like you pretty much narrowed down the issue, at least if you answered this correctly. The question here is asking if the problem occurred with default Shields settings. If you are are saying no like is in your answer, then it means it’s a setting you changed in Shields that’s causing the problem.
So what is it you changed? Such as adding any custom filters, turning on Block Scripts, or anything like that?
@g3ck0 hey, let me find some details here:
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Can you give more details on what you mean by “not working?” I mean, what’s the page look like and are you getting any error messages? Screenshots might help if you could.
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Have you given any of your extensions to run in private window? Basically when checking in Private it’s because it tends to disable all extensions and it’s a session with no cookies.
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When you tried in private, did you remain logged out of YouTube or did you log in?
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If you create a secondary test profile, does it work there? To do this, go to the hamburger menu (three dot menu) → More Tools → Add New Profile. Don’t add extensions or change settings. Just visit YouTube and see if it works.
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Yes sorry, YES the issue is present with default Shields settings.
Details:
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I can see the homepage, recommended videos, but when I click in any of them, it simply does not play, or showing loading, nothing. If logged out, the log in button is unresponsive.
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No extensions in Private window.
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Logged out.
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Youtube working fine in fresh new profile.
So testing in a private window helps to check if an issue is related to cookies/site data or extensions.
Testing in a new profile kind of looks at that as well but it adds the other layer of browser settings.
There could be another moving piece here but when I follow simple logic, I would say that it seems that there’s something in the settings that you’ve changed that might be causing a problem.
Can you think of anything that you might have changed in recent weeks?
If you can’t think of what might have been changed recently, you could maybe try doing a side-by-side comparison through your settings, Default Profile vs. New Profile, a bit arduous but just a thought. I would start with brave://settings/privacy & brave://settings/shields if you were to.
Not really. I barely change settings…