"That appears to be what's going on today. Earlier this morning, a spike on DownDetector made it seem as though YouTube was experiencing a partial outage, but users quickly found out that ad blockers were to blame. Affected users saw a mostly blank webpage when trying to load up YouTube, as pictured below. As would be the case with any outage, some users tried to access YouTube via other browsers and found that the platform started working again. The difference? Ad blockers."
"This isn't the first time we've seen YouTube issues isolated to users with an active ad blocker. Over the past year alone there have been incidents where videos were loading slowly when an ad blocker was in use - which is still happening - and ad blockers were the cause of drastically dropping view counts across the platform. The latter seems the closest to this latest issue."
Some YouTube users experienced what looked like a partial outage caused by ad blockers. A DownDetector spike made the outage appear platform-wide for a time. Affected users reported mostly blank webpages when trying to load YouTube. Switching to browsers without ad blockers restored functionality for many users. Ad blockers have previously caused issues including slow video loading and drastically dropping view counts. A separate YouTube Shorts UI problem temporarily hid comments, the like button, and descriptions but appears to be fixed. User reports and prior incidents point to ad blocker interactions as the likely cause of the disruption.
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