If you use an ad blocker extension like AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin, or Ghostery and you're having trouble with YouTube lately, you might want to try turning it off.

In our tests, the problem only occurred on Chrome with Adblock Plus, wheareas Firefox with the extension installed worked just fine. Other users have reported that the problem occurs in every browser.

According to Adblock Plus, if you see an 'anti-ad block wall' on YouTube, try the following methods. - Keep the filter list up to date so that updates by the filter list creator are applied.

So YouTube isn’t causing the problems, it’s just a very popular catalyst for setting off underlying issues that currently exist in AdBlock and Adblock Plus.

Microsoft has issued a warning about a conflict between Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, and the AdBlock Plus browser extension that causes problems when watching ...

So YouTube has finally clamped down on Adblock, if Adblock is active on the page, the pre-roll ad will play without a skip option. — SteeScribbles (@SteeScribbles) September 6, 2015 ...

Google has confirmed that the latest YouTube slowdown has nothing to do with ad blockers. The problem seemed to stem from the previous AdBlock and AdBlock Plus updates.

As with any extension like this that filters sites — and there are others, from companies like AdBlock — it’s meant to offset the user’s lack of self-control.