Google and YouTube block Brave hard

When i start the desktop today and open Brave, i could sign in google account, because google said: I use an unsafe browser.
I restart Brave and could login, but YouTube isn’t work anymore. It comes the typcial Block Message: An Error occurred. Please try again later. Playback ID: …

Is there a solution or a suggestion to keep the high security? Google is actually forcing people to reduce the security

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@Titan_Drow,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
Google has certainly increased their restrictions on browsers who have ad-blockers enabled. That said, I’m not seeing any of the issues you’ve described with Google services, including Youtube.

Can you please share a screenshot of the error message you get when you try to view Youtube content in Brave?

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I’m having the same issue where I get error on Youtube, but Gmail is fine for me

@VongJinXun,
That looks like a normal playback error not related to YT blocking any content.

Can you please test playing Youtube content with Shields down?

Videos play but with ads when shields are down.

Some reason reactivating shields allowed me to play videos again without ads

Can you please put Shields back up, then go to brave://components and ensure that the Brave Ad-block updater, Brave Ad Block List Catalog, and Brave Ad Block Resources Library components are up to date?

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They are now up to date, after updating I had errors again, but then restarting Brave fixed the errors. Thank you for the support!

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You’re very welcome.

Have a wonderful day.

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@Titan_Drow,
Can you please show me:

  1. How you have your Shields settings configured for Youtube.com?
  2. Tell me if you have any extensions installed at this time? If so, can you please try disabling them and tell me if the issue persists or not?

Thank you, so here are the updates
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YT is only working when Trackers & adds are disabled

Have you tried setting it to the middle option (not Aggressive)? Additionally can you please tell me the Brave version and OS you’re using?

I am to lazy to write, so here screens :slight_smile:

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i have only these options, Standard is not working only disabled

These are the extensions what i use

I set on Standard and restart the browser, now it works. I hope youtube/ google will not go more aggressive for the ads. For me still dangerous

Hi, I’m having the same problem as the other people talked about in that YouTube videos won’t play unless the ad blocker is down. I’ve tried the solutions mention here, but YouTube still won’t play for me unless I disable the Ad Blocker. Here are some screenshot of my settings and the extensions I use.


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try logging into your youtube account. you will get the playback error every time the adblock works.

Does it work in private window mode? Try also clearing the cache/cookie via brave://settings/clearBrowserData (will force to relogin to YT and other sites).

There was a youtube ad block update sent out earlier, so it should be resolved