YouTube Will Skip Entire Videos If You Have Ad Blockers Installed
May. 28, 2024In their latest attempt, YouTube seems to beskipping videos directly to the endif you have an ad blocker installed. Asreported by 9to5Google, when you disable the ad blocker, the video plays in its entirety as it would. However, turning on the ad blocker will fast-forward the video to the end screen.
Besides this,users on Redditalso mentioned that this issue occurs when you try to replay the video. In case you try to skip to any particular section of the video then thevideo will buffer endlessly. Otherusers mentionedthat videos play without any sound. Playing around with the volume slider brings back audio for a second then it goes mute again. You can see this in action in this video by Reddit user u/SDHD4K.New Youtube adblock weird behaviour – video automatically skips to the endbyu/SDHD4Kinyoutube
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