Today (November 7), a huge number of users are reporting that YouTube is down, but what’s actually happened is another step has been taken in the anti-ad block war.

If you are using ad blockers that you can get from the Chrome extension store (think Adblock Plus), the home page will not load and even if it does, videos will either not buffer or take a long time to start playing.

This is similar to what happened before, but even worse now is the reports that even uBlock Origin is not breaking through either. But there are three workarounds. To start with, though, let’s ask one key question.

How does YouTube detect an ad blocker?

YouTube has always been vague in telling users how it identifies ad blockers. That being said, though, we can take notes from what’s happened on both YouTube in

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