I’m using the latest version of Brave, and today I ran into an issue where I can’t use my main account to watch YouTube. It shows a message saying that Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service . I tried turning off Brave Shields and moving to ublock origin but it didn’t help. I’m using my laptop and this only happened just a few minutes ago
289wk
March 23, 2025, 3:47pm
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Hi everyone,
I’m using the latest version of Brave on Windows 11, and today I ran into an issue where I can’t use my main account to watch YouTube. It shows a message saying that Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service. I tried turning off Brave Shields, but it didn’t help.
However, when I open YouTube in Incognito mode or use a different YouTube/Google account, everything works fine. I also tested my main account on other browsers like Chrome and Edge, and ads appear normally. This sug…
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BINNE
March 23, 2025, 4:50pm
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Hi, I use Windows 11. I don’t think it’s the OS cause as I mentioned, i can watch videos normally in incognito mode and on my other accounts
BINNE
March 23, 2025, 4:55pm
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bro why did you copy my post word for word
Hi everyone,
I’m using the latest version of Brave on Windows 11, and today I ran into an issue where I can’t use my main account to watch YouTube. It shows a message saying that Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service. I tried turning off Brave Shields, but it didn’t help.
However, when I open YouTube in Incognito mode or use a different YouTube/Google account, everything works fine. I also tested my main account on other browsers like Chrome and Edge, and ads appear normally. This sug…
i didnt copy it word by word
BINNE
March 23, 2025, 4:59pm
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I didn’t mean anything but you clearly did.
This has been brought up a lot and even had pinned posts on it. The long and short of it is that:
It’s going to happen every once in a while. Generally keeping Brave updated and perhaps checking brave://components for updates can work.
You should use as few extensions as possible. Some extensions can trigger detection, such as people who have used tools like Enhancer For YouTube
Sometimes you need to clear cookies/cache because they have something saved to identify
Always good to check Shields settings. Good to have Aggressive for ad blocking and to have Fanboy’s Annoyances + uBO Annoyances enabled under Content Filtering.
Similar topics/answers on this:
This is something that seems to be appearing quite often around the internet and I figured I’d try to create a topic exclusively on it. Below are some things to keep in mind. All information is from what I’ve experienced and learned from others. This isn’t anything official from Brave.
Creating this as a master topic for all the duplicate posts regarding YouTube showing the adblock warning/notice.
Update (10/29/2023):
If you are fully updated (both Brave version ad ad-blocker component) and are still being detected by YoutTube, it may be the extensions you have installed. There are some extensions that will trigger Youtube’s detection that may need to be disabled or you will continue to see these prompts.
This especially applies to 3rd party ad-blockers you may have installed, since they all update at different times and they may not all have include a fix for YouTube’s ad detection.
O…
This is a known issue. Note that it is not specific to Brave — other users with adblock extensions like uBlock Origin are also encountering this issue.
As usual it’s important to remember that this is/will be an ongoing battle between Youtube and ad blockers, so this issue will come back every now and then when they find a way to work around our Shields/ad block protections.
Our web compat. folks are working on this issue presently and we hope to have a solution soon.
Obviously the list goes on. And you’ll see even uBlock Origin and others have tons of information and topics on it. In other words, it’s not a Brave only thing:
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does it really matter i had the same issue on my laptop big deal whoopty do
ive fixed it and it was my extensions i removed some and reisntalled them and its only happening on my laptop but as right now its been fixed
