I was playing youtube videos all the time on brave browser , now it says it will not play them because of an ad blocker. I didn’t change anything, what happened?

Yeah same here “Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service” hope they find a workaround asap.

Same. Just happened to me aswell. I’d say they will update it in the next few days/week

Same here, it worked all day long, came back after taking my shower and it’s not working anymore

Just type this in brave://settings/content/all and delete everything and close and restart should work :joy:

Same here, youtube pop up says stop the ad blocker

This is a known issue. Note that it is not specific to Brave — other users with adblock extensions like uBlock Origin are also encountering this issue. As usual it’s important to remember that this is/will be an ongoing battle between Youtube and ad blockers, so this issue will come back every now …

Thanks Mattches! F*ck their intrusive, low quality, (half the time scam) ads!. Yall are great.

Thanks ! Appreciate the feedback it helps a lot !

Does this also happen with a PiHole active on client networks? Just asking because I am about to try setting up my own.

[image] Ad block not working anymore on youtube Ad-Blocking Looks like we have a fix in for this: https://old.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1hinfh3/youtube_now_suddenly_blocks_me_for_using_brave/m31kcmw/ In brave://components force an update of Brave Ad Block Upda…

Youtube videos no longer playing - says "ad blocker"?

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Mattches December 23, 2024, 6:48pm 12

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