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.

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.

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 ...

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 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.

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.

Though, YouTube in the beginning of 2017 had announced that from the beginning of 2018 it will remove the unskippable 30-second ads but has not really given us any info on ads below 30 seconds.

Tricked around 37,000 folks into downloading itThe phony Adblock Plus extension used the exact same name as the genuine add-on in the Chrome web store – save for the fact that it was written as ...

If you’re using Microsoft Edge and also happen to be using AdBlock or AdBlock Plus, you might notice some issues with YouTube. As pictured below, this combination seems to break the ability to ...

The open-source extension is named "Return YouTube Dislike" and it works by accessing Google's own Application Programming Interface (API). In a nutshell, this means that the data you see here ...