YouTube, the world’s largest video platform, takes measures from time to time to combat ad blockers. Previously, users were faced with direct messages that the use of ad blockers was prohibited on the site, and the only solution to the problem was to subscribe to YouTube Premium.

Anyway, what happened?

Users of AdBlock and AdBlock Plus extensions have noticed a drop in YouTube performance over the past day, reporting issues such as slow video loading, inaccurate previews, and the need to refresh the page to switch to full-screen mode.

Despite these glitches, the portal claims that the platform’s management has said that the problem is not related to its efforts to detect and combat ad blockers Android Central.

The whole problem is AdBlock

This was also confirmed by Raymond Gill, developer of the uBlock Origin plugin. According to him, the latest versions of AdBlock and AdBlock Plus extensions do not only cause performance problems on YouTube. Gill emphasized that the uBlock Origin plugin is not affected by these problems.

So YouTube’s recent slowdown was due to issues with the latest versions of the AdBlock and AdBlock Plus extensions, which were confirmed by both the YouTube representative and third-party developers.

So there is at least a temporary solution for users who want the platform to run stable; They will have to remove ad blockers or wait for an update that will fix everything.