YouTube Ads on Brave Browser - Need Assistance

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Also want to note you can test as seen in below (described two different ways, but same steps):

Brave stopped blocking ads

I figured it out. I used F12 to get the version name of the Ad-Block catalog which shows up in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data As soon as I double clicked the corresponding folder It asked for permission to open. Now I can open brave without running as admin and my ad-block component is up to date. EDIT: Once fixed you need to disable/re-enable your content filters for them to be active

Brave stopped blocking ads

When you are in brave://components/ hit F12, next press Ctrl + Shift + C and move the mouse over the ad block component - Check for update. It should show "button#…s…t…r…i…n…g…button-check-update. The characters making up the string correspond to the components folder in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data. Remembering USERNAME is the name you are logged into windows as. If you navigate to the folder manually you need to make sure you tick view/hidden item…