what now

It all started when a message appeared on the platform that blocked the video from playing if you had the ad blocker enabled. But as it turns out, many users have found a way around this.

Many people noticed this week A YouTube video suddenly skips to the end. So when you play it, it almost immediately jumps to the last second and ends.

It is possible only with users who have ad blockers enabled. When disabled everything works as usual.

Users also report that rewinding starts not only during normal viewing, but also when trying to go to a specific part of the video.

Many believe this is a deliberate move by YouTube to discourage the use of ad blockers. The company did not announce such measures.

Some have also suggested that this may be a bug in the blocker itself; Earlier this year, a bug in AdBlock caused videos to load slowly and overload the computer when launching YouTube. When this issue occurred many people attributed it to video hosting. However, a journalist from Wccftech tested this assumption in various programs and refuted it:

We tried running different blockers to see if the behavior was the same and of course we ran into the same problem.
– Omar Sohail writes.

No comments from Google yet.

For now, the only alternative is to wait for ad blockers to get smarter and get around this hurdle, or subscribe to YouTube Premium. The company offers both a single subscription and a family subscription that can be shared with relatives or friends and pay a minimum amount.