Over the past few days, there have been an increasing number of reports about supposed YouTube outages. The number of reports rose sharply on fault-tracking platforms such as Downdetector , but this time there was no technical error. Apparently, the “issue” is simply that YouTube has tightened its measures against ad blockers once more.

Many users are suddenly only seeing gray elements instead of videos or thumbnails, and playback only works again when their ad blockers are deactivated. The Opera GX gaming browser, which blocks ads by default, appears to be especially affected—and the issue persists even when the feature has been deactivated, according to some users .

Different effects in different browsers

As various reports show, the current crop of problems on YouTube occur diffe

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