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11-07-2025, 07:26 PM
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TL;DR
There were thousands of reports of YouTube being down earlier today.
It turns out that YouTube is working fine.
The problem is that the platform rolled out a big anti-ad blocker update.
YouTube has long been at war with ad blockers, implementing various measures to get users to turn off their extensions. As a result, we occasionally see some users report (https://www.androidauthority.com/black-ads-youtube-ad-block-extension-3465017/) that an ad blocker has stopped working on the website. This time, however, it appears that YouTube has rolled out a big update that made the website unusable for a large number of viewers who have their ad blockers enabled.
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TL;DR
There were thousands of reports of YouTube being down earlier today.
It turns out that YouTube is working fine.
The problem is that the platform rolled out a big anti-ad blocker update.
YouTube has long been at war with ad blockers, implementing various measures to get users to turn off their extensions. As a result, we occasionally see some users report (https://www.androidauthority.com/black-ads-youtube-ad-block-extension-3465017/) that an ad blocker has stopped working on the website. This time, however, it appears that YouTube has rolled out a big update that made the website unusable for a large number of viewers who have their ad blockers enabled.
Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority?
More... (https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-not-down-just-an-ad-blocker-crackdown-3614018/)