The massive amount of advertising on the internet has prompted many users to install ad blockers, but it’s not working as smoothly as it did a few years ago.
YouTube users who try to skip ads are running into various show-stopping problems, as highlighted by Techspot.
Some users are reporting that videos jump straight to the end if an ad blocker is detected. Jumping back to the beginning doesn’t work either — it just skips to the end of the video again.
In other cases, the sound is muted, and the only way to hear what is being said is to switch off the ad blocker.
For some time now, YouTube has also been running a campaign against third-party software and add-ons that allow you to skip advertising, in a bid to get ad-weary users to pay for YouTube Premium instead. (No thanks!) That being said, this could be an issue with the ad blockers themselves. TechSpot says these issues are only affecting users of Adblock and Adblock Plus, while alternative ad blockers like uBlock Origin are still working as intended.
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