Thanks for your reply, yeah it works if I turn off shields. Just now get ads 
[Beginning Wednesday 11 October]
When using YouTube, opening a new tab gives me the message that I’m offline. That is incorrect.
The only workaround I’ve tried so far is to Refresh the page.
Oddly, Cmd-clicking a thumbnail opens a new tab without problems.
Anyone else?
It’s been confirmed, by numerous users, that the YouTube website only does the anti-ad block thing when a user browses the website in the same tab. To add to what I and several others have stated, I’ve noticed that if you Refresh a video page, browse to another video, then hit the Back button into the video you originally hit Refresh on, the “Offline” / “No Ad Blocker” script doesn’t work. That tells me that whatever script / payload it’s using only works on a “soft-refresh” and never on the “landing page” (or the first page in a new tab), whatever that might be for a user. (The homepage, a video, whatever.)
I suppose the thing to do, now, is to poke around the code and scripts to see what’s doing what and when, tracing the “on new video” thing back.
Ublock origin have fixed this issue on there end. adblock browsers i think are done for now.(Back to chrome i go). It depends on google,s resolve and how long they will keep this up.
I think brave devs should at least allow shields down on youtube with an option to permanently save it.
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We are aware of this issue and are working on a fix for this. We appreciate your patience.
@dutchgold,
If you’re still here, you can disable Shields for any site by toggling Shields “off” using the Shields panel in the address bar while on that site and it will be saved. More on “site specific” shields here:
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I have actually setup a shortcut on my ipad to open brave browser straight into YouTube and given it a YouTube logo, it was great for a while but now same as everyone else it gives the ‘offline’ and ‘don’t be a naughty boy and let us give content creators virtually nothing and serve you adverts until your eyes bleed’ or something like that
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Yep. That’s about right.
One way around it is to load the website in Mobile View, but doing so will also kind of break the website, slightly? The mobile site also doesn’t support 60 FPS, for some reason. I take that back; on mobile, some 720p quality videos are locked to 30 FPS, but others aren’t. I’m not sure why. But, if you have a playlist full of videos and don’t need to Like or leave comments, it’s the best solution, right now.
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Thank you for your time and help. It looks like my browser wasn’t full updated and the issue is fixed now.
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