Youtube not running on brave

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Description of the issue:
when i try to watch videos on youtube , it shows i need to remove or disable my adblockers. I don’t have any extra adblockers. But i understand that the reason its showing that is because brave by default blocks all youtube ads. But youtube still ran fine up untill now. But youtube videos just refuse to play anymore. But yeah shorts still play. Also in the incognito tab the videos play just fine.

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How can this issue be reproduced?
Don’t know if anyone else is seeing this, but it should be on everyones browser too.

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Expected result:
It shouldn’t be like this i suppose. I should let me watch the videos.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.73.101 Chromium: 131.0.6778.139 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
id be happy to get any solution or suggestion on fixing this.

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Can you please go to brave://components and confirm that the Brave Ad Block Updater component is fully updated?

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yeah every single component on that link you provided is fully updated. But this problem on youtube is still same

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No guarantee that the following will resolve the issue, but try these steps . . .

In a Brave Browser New Window, go to:

brave://settings/content/javascript

Scroll down that javascript settings page to Allowed to use javascript

Click the Add button

Enter [*.]google.com as the site . . . but do not Enable the following:

  • Current Private session only

Click the Add button

Repeat for:

  • [*.]firebaseapp.com
  • [*.]gmail.com
  • [*.]googleapis.com
  • [*.]googleusercontent.com
  • [*.]gstatic.com
  • [*.]youtube.com

I have no troubles viewing YouTube, mostly because I use (pick any):

  • Brave Browser New Private Window
  • Private Browsing Only mode (iOS device)
  • “incognito”

The occasional in-video stream ads(?), I wait, and proceed.

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Unfortunately its still same not working in general tab, but runs fine in incognito mode.

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Similar issue for me also. But after showing a 5 second loading screen shows an ad and play the video.

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Can you both please try launching a guest profile window (Menu --> More tools —> Guest profile), visit youtube there and tell me whether or not ads display in Youtube there? Please ensure that you close your original profile window when testing, so that only the guest profile window is open.

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in guest mode the videos play fine. I logged in to my google account there too and tried playing youtube videos and the videos played fine without ads or blocking just like it should be. Suddenly now the videos started playing like normal on my regular profile too which i had been having issues with video playing. Don’t know how this got solved😅. But Im happy it got solved.

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Glad to hear it. Not sure what happened either but I’ll leave this thread open for now in case the issue occurs again.

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Started seeing the same issue today, within the last 5-6 hours potentially as I was actually watching stuff without issue earlier (it’s currently about 6pm for me, and I was watching something about 12:30pm without problems).

Guest session seems to work fine which is pretty weird – I do have uBlock Origin installed in my main profile, but disabling that (both using its own control, and disabling the whole extension) makes no difference.

Only thing that worked so far for my main profile is disabling Brave’s shields entirely for YouTube, which of course is less than ideal!

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I did everything here and it finally worked !!

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Official fix for this is in: