What happened

The fact is that Google, trying to increase its revenues, began to struggle with ad blockers. Now users who have installed one of these extensions in their browser will see a special notification in the player instead of the video, saying that the rules now prohibit viewing with AdBlock, AdFender, Ghostery, AdGuard and other programs.

This notification is visible to users who have ad blockers enabled / Photo WindowsLatest

In this way, YouTube wants to encourage users to subscribe to Premium. This is a paid subscription that completely disables ads on the site and provides a number of other features, including unlimited access to the YouTube Music service.

But as it turned out, not only users of certain extensions, but also browsers may face video unavailability. Only Microsoft Edge has been reported so far, but Opera, Brave and Vivaldi are likely to experience similar issues. The reason for this lies in built-in ad blocking technologies.

Edge offers three levels of blocking: Basic, Balanced, and Hard. It is the users of the latter who encounter problems on YouTube.

Block ads in Microsoft Edge / Screenshot of 24 Channels

When you install the browser, you get the Balanced blocking level by default. But many people prefer to change this and choose maximum probabilities. Apparently in this case the browser is interfering with the operation of the video service. For this reason The only way to get around the tracking ban without purchasing Premium is to change your browser settings.

How to fix everything?

• Go to settings.
• Select the “Privacy, search and services” menu.
• Switch to the “Balanced” level of traffic filtering.