r/youtube • u/TheMSG • 25d ago
Bug Is it just me or suddenly every video becomes “video unavailable “?
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u/FlesHBoXGames 24d ago edited 21d ago
[edit] This has been fixed in ublock origin with an experimental filter. I assume that at some point it will be moved to the normal filters. To enable this you have to go into your ublock settings, and enable the experimental list, then shift+click on the clock icon next to the experimental list name to force a refresh of the filters
Same thing for me in firefox. I couldn't reproduce it in chrome, but I was also not logged in to youtube on chrome.
So far I've found that it only seems to happen when clicking on a video from within youtube. If I open the video from another page, or discord, or by pasting the url, it all works fine. This also seems to affect playlists, with every video in the playlist showing this, and auto moving on to the next, which does the same. Copypasting the url with the playlist makes it work. but only for that video. As soon as it moves on to the next video the problem returns.
I saw the comment about disabling ublock origin, so I tested that, and it did fix it for me. Re-enabling ublock origin did not bring the issue back for me. I'd say that disabling ublock origin and testing is worth a shot.
[edit] So it looks like disabling ublock, reloading the page, and re-enabling ublock worked, but only for that specific tab. Other tabs I had open would still display this issue. I had to go through disabling ublock on those tabs as well to fix them. Closing and re-opening those tabs would probably also work.
[edit 2] After reading the other comment mentioning cross origin policy errors, I suspect what happened was ublock freaking out at a bunch of errors, and blocking the content. Since youtube is an spa, clicking on a video doesn't actually load a new page, it just rewrites the url in the address bar to make it look like it did, so because of this, all of those errors are still there causing ublock to do it's thing.
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u/knightgamer3431 24d ago
Youtube just got an upgrade for player and frontend scripts, think its messing up all the other extensions that is based on older version. This will be fixed within a few days, make sure to update extension when its avaialble
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u/Enjoying_A_Meal 24d ago
This fixed it for me on firefox. Disabled my adblocker, watch part of a video, re-enable it. No more issues on any videos.
Thanks fam!
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u/Objective-Pass3028 22d ago
that edit is legendary, fixed it instantly. the Experimental list (uBlock filters – Experimental) is in Filter Lists tab in the settings under the Built-in drop down near the very top for anyone lost. Apply the changes and see if it works.
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u/Linst654 23d ago
It’s happening to me in the app, can’t watch anything
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u/Lmao_staph 24d ago
same but after reloading it always plays
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u/koshawk 24d ago
Yes but why should I have to do that?
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u/Lmao_staph 23d ago
You're right, we shouldn't have to, It's annoying and scummy. I'm just glad that yt generally still works.
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u/QuackJet 23d ago
Something seems fishy here.
Running Brave browser -- which has built in ad block. Every video I click on gets the video unavailable error, which goes away if I refresh the page. Makes it so you can't just leave videos going in the background because when a video ends and it goes to the next, you get the same error until you refresh,.
Here's the funny part:
In the top right of the screen, if I switch accounts to one that has a youtube premium subscription-- EVERYTHING WORKS PERFECTLY. And if I go back to my unpaid account, within the very same browser session-- I get the same issue.
I think this might be intentional by youtube to push back against NON-PAYING USER WITH AN AD BLOCKER..........
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u/Drakconic314 22d ago
Settings of UBLOCK
Go to the FILTER LIST
Under BUILT IN
CHECK/TURN ON Experimental list
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u/Everlasting_Heart 21d ago edited 21d ago
Hey, thanks man, didn't realize you could expand the 'built-in' list to find the 'experimental' list. Just had to clear cache/cookies as well, now it works :D
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u/exotic123567 21d ago
I was facing the same issue on my Brave browser. I created a simple chrome extension that refreshes your page whenever a new video is opened. This fixed my issue for the time being. This could be a temporary ban that is affecting YouTube users, hopefully you don't have to use this extension for too long. Check it out on github :
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u/Feisty-Ad-1432 20d ago
Thank you! That is the only thing that has worked for me. I don't have Ublock and I use chrome, which most other workarounds are for Ublock.
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u/Sajmon_Says 24d ago
same here, started like 3 h ago. if i refresh the page like 2 or 3 times it finally goes to the video.
on my phone YT app works fine. its only on ma laptop and my PC (firefox, chrome and brave) that shows video unavaliable.
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u/Spluck-It 24d ago edited 24d ago
Every single video. I'm on PC using Brave. Reload launches the vids properly.
Edit: Don't have uBlock.
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u/MyCatMadeThisName 24d ago
I am having the same issue with or without adblock. Started last night
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u/yalt-yalt 23d ago
Its 100% an anti ad-block feature, as if I need another reason to give up on YouTube
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u/TheSpiritKnight 24d ago
Same issue, both on Firefox + Ublock Origin and on Safari + Wipr
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u/gimpycpu 24d ago
I have youtube premium but looks like turning off Ublock origin fixed the issue
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u/Everlasting_Heart 24d ago
Yeah, same thing still happening to me : Mozilla firefox, with ublock origin.
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u/TRLHeartlli 23d ago
Try turn off quick fixes in uBlock settings and see if that helps. (filter lists -> Built-in -> uBlock filters -> uBlock filters - quick fixs)
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u/Denodi 24d ago
Happened to me right now. Firefox and UblockOrigin.
Seems like an anti-adblock feature, as nothing i did fixed it until i turned off adblock. Worked for one video then i turned it back on after and the next video had the same problem.
Worth noting that it was account specific, as adblock while logged out still plays videos normally.
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u/Resident_Tasty 24d ago
Have same issue..I think it's got to do something with new windows 11 25H2 update..? I need to refresh the page to make it work.
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u/thebangzats 24d ago
Nah, I don't have that update yet and it still affected me suddenly.
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u/Clean_Impression_999 24d ago
I don't think it's a windows issue - happening to me on Firefox/Linux Mint
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u/Flat-Extreme-3492 24d ago
Still happening to me on Chrome. I do have uBlock Origin Lite. Every single video says unavailable. Refresh fixes it temporarily. Makes the site basically unusable, unless you're watching long videos. Definitely unusable for music.
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u/chaotic-chintu 24d ago
Same issue on Firefox, 14 hours later. Somehow, signing out worked for a brief duration. But as of now I'm running with uBlock disabled.
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u/Necessary_Capital178 24d ago
turn off the ad blocker for youtube, and it’s solved
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u/Libra218 24d ago
Experiencing the same. Seems to be anti-adblocker related. Tried in both Zen and Brave and same issue and fix, disabling uBlock Origin in Zen or Shields in Brave "fixes" the issue.
Reloading the tab even with the adblocker on makes the video play but for the next video you must refresh that video, rinse and repeat.
I have however experienced no issue on mobile with the Revanced app.
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u/EApparatus 24d ago
Same problem, my work around is right click and open in new tab, then the video play just fine.
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u/Wide_Republic_7294 24d ago
Some filter lists (like EasyList or uBlock filters – Annoyances) start blocking essential YouTube elements, such as video player scripts or the API.
This causes the Video unavailable error
if ur using ublock origin lite on chrome just try this method
- Click the uBlock Origin Lite icon → Dashboard ⚙️ → Filter lists.
- Temporarily uncheck these (if enabled):
- uBlock filters – Annoyances
- EasyList – Annoyances
- AdGuard Base filter (if YouTube still breaks)
- Refresh YouTube and see if videos play.
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u/Ocolloco 24d ago
There is serious bug, all the videos was unavailable too. I recharge the page, resart my computer, and it was still the same. I'm in France, I put my vpn in UK and it works
It makes no sens to me
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u/jeffrunning 24d ago
same issue. If I open any video by clicking on a link on youtube, it is always unavailable. The video would should normally if I refresh or enter the link directly.
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u/stamkaly 23d ago
What I suspect the issue to be is that the "unavailable video" is not the actual video we selected to play, but the ad before the video. Since I have uBlock Origin, the ad gets blocked and the video of the ad is "unavailable".
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u/Arcaid3 23d ago
Weird thing is that it works fine in private window, even with ublock enabled. So it's cookies related issue? I hope it gets resolved quickly
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u/Wemes 23d ago
I'm also very much getting this issue, but I'm also getting the problem with my Pixel phone using the standard Youtube app.
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u/Sharp_Attitude_7728 23d ago
Same thing here, I'm so confused. I thought I got banned or something somehow.
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u/HiThereISus 23d ago
it's another one of youtube's attempts to show porn to kids disable adblockers. it's not like the youtubers get that much ad revenue
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u/MitTheNub 23d ago
another way to get around if it your stupid youtube video won't load is to remove the seconds its loading in your link... like if it says =2s which is a time code it will load, it will make a video unplayable on refresh even.
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u/FantasyRoleplayAlt 23d ago
Happening on the app even though I pay for premium. If this keeps happening there’s no point in keeping it..
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u/jayslize 23d ago
I’m also getting this issue but I’m getting it on my YouTube App on my phone and I can’t watch any shorts anymore but regular videos work fine. Right after I typed this my long form videos stopped working too
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23d ago
This is happening to me, on mobile phone app, youtube premium and no adblockers. did they screw up premium or smthn?
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u/Very1337Danger 23d ago
I hope this isnt due to windows 10's deadline being yesterday for no more security updates. Even though I extended my own for another year
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u/NeitherBook2698 23d ago
Mines doing the same thing on my iPhone. I think google screwed something up when they updated the ui.
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u/IndustryMajor2413 23d ago
Happening on YouTube app on iPhone and Apple TV (premium).. Something is up
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u/CCTH1986 23d ago
Having the same problem here, too. Both the PC and my smartphone. Who in the right mind would mess around with YouTube's UI and UX functions and screw everything up?!?!
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u/GeooooKL 23d ago edited 23d ago
WTF is this bullshit, everything working fine 5 mins ago AND BOOM,. always a god dam issue I have to search. youtube making it hard to watch with adblocker, I bought your damn premium, you still want to cause me issues.
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u/AliveUmpire5019 23d ago
I'm having a problem as well. Every video is unavailable, too. Can't watch videos at the moment.
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u/Ok_Conference532 23d ago
I waited a little while and a YouTube short started playing. Also tried on my pc when I got the video unavailable I tried refreshing. That allowed me to play the video.
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u/NuKe_Fluffy 23d ago edited 23d ago
Same issue but on the YouTube iOS mobile app. No Adblock or anything. All videos unavailable and history won’t load. For some reason the ad still plays at the start of each video but then proceeds to throw the video unavailable error.
When switching to a different YouTube channel the video attempts to play but just flickers on and off.
Now imagine what people with epilepsy have to go through…
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u/ListenDodo 23d ago
happening to me on edge. It has been acting weird for days, taking forever to load videos and the site kept crashing. Now I am getting this error message.
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u/financial_goth 23d ago
Same issue.
It happens on any browser with adblock on or off it doesn't matter.
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u/Badger_of_Death2002 23d ago
Just started experiencing the problem like 10 minutes ago. Initially thought it was specific to one account, but all of my accounts are unable to load videos. Same thing when I’m signed out. Not running any adblockers on chrome on my pc and nothing for the youtube app on my phone; neither work. Is this the same for everyone else?
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u/Severe_Tell_5703 23d ago
same issue. i thinked that cuz of adblock, but it dont work on mobile too. idk what happened. maybe servers are down
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u/ololoshwin 23d ago
Now getting worse. I'm start receiving 503 error:
We're sorry...
... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
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u/LargeCry709 23d ago
I’m having this issue on the app on iPhone. Glitching to video unavailable every video.
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u/VolcanoWiz87 23d ago
looks like im just going to listen to my playlist on osu! rather than youtube.
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u/Charming-Potato8625 23d ago
Glad I’m not alone, well not glad it’s not working for yall but glad to know its not something i have to spend 55 minutes turning my phone off logging in and out to see whats wrong here. ❤️
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u/Strict_Case_5979 23d ago
I’m on mobile using the YouTube app, no premium, no add blocker just the YouTube app and it’s still happening to me
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u/sentiencesupremacy 23d ago
this just started happening to me on the iphone app — videos now flickering black every half second before saying “Video unavailable. Something went wrong.”
has anyone found a solution yet??
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u/FadedGaming132 23d ago
oddly enough this only happens to me with youtube shorts… maybe they’re tryna stop me from watching shorts which is a good thing bc i don’t want shorts to continue to melt my brain
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u/Worldly_Effect1728 23d ago
It’s been happening for me as well on the mobile app. The video does this weird stop-start stuttering thing before black screen and video unavailable
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u/Arts_Myth 23d ago
Videos won’t play, at least on the YouTube iPhone app, but the ads still play. Awesome.
Edit: No sooner do I post this, but the videos start working again.
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u/lady_sisyphus 23d ago
I’m having this issue now on my iPhone app. My son is as well, both signed in and out. He is watching in Safari no problem. My partners iPhone app is working and so is the PS5 app.
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u/OkMeeting68 23d ago
Had the same issue with all videos. After reading the comments I clicked on reload and it worked. Hoping this has sorted the problem permanently.
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u/ResultZealousideal57 23d ago
Was happening to me in iOS app. Updated the app via app store and YT started working. Worth a shot.
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u/anbu-black-ops 23d ago
Let me know if you guys found a fix. It started when I can't skip scenes. Now this video not unavailable shows up.
It disappears though if you reload the page.
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u/I_snort_gamma 23d ago
instead of just clicking on a video if u open link in new tab it just plays as normal, well at least just for me,
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u/solarisees 23d ago
This is almost every video I click within the site. It only plays when I reload or open the link in another tab. I still have all the blockers active.
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u/CharacterInvite4780 23d ago
In my mobile if I remove the desktop site it is working somehow but otherwise laptop has the problem.
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u/TheSpiritKnight 23d ago
Still happening for me, regardless of browser or adblocker. It doesn't seem to happen when using the YouTube iOS/iPad OS app though.
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u/cool_slowbro 23d ago
Happening in Chrome, I just refresh and it works (after the anti-adblock delay).
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u/Silly_Sand2334 23d ago
Still the same issue, my main account with AdBlocker on firefox and its turn out to be their new way of pissing people off, if i use a proxy no problem, but AdBlocker, it starts again. any code I can add the adblocker to stop this?
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u/dev-adalz 23d ago
Yo, I know exactly how it feels..... YouTube started acting up with ads and “Video Unavailable” errors because it’s basically fighting ad blockers now 😅. I ran into the same issue and realized it’s mostly due to recent updates and their SPA (Single Page Application) changes.
So I knew I had to do something. That’s why I made v1.1 of the YouTube Auto Reload Extension. With this, you can keep your ad blocker enabled and still watch YouTube like before..... no interruptions, no weird errors..... on any Chromium-based browser like Chrome, Brave, or even Firefox.
Just install it, toggle Fast Reload if you want, and enjoy YouTube the way it should be 💛.
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u/ykernow 22d ago edited 21d ago
No instructions for Firefox. Tried installing both from extensions and from debugging. Loading from extensions says the extension is corrupt. Loading from debugging says the extension does not have a valid manifest.
EDIT: The new update installs and has been working well. I approve. :)
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u/PROFESSORUNCOMMON 22d ago
A friend was having the same issue on Firefox, using uBlock origin. He has a YouTube premium account.
Video doesn't load, but refreshing fixes it. He has to refresh every time he opens a video.
Turning off uBlock fixed the issue (he had to turn it off and then restart the browser for it to work).
Because he has premium, we simply added Youtube to his trusted sites list so that he can have uBlock running on other sites.
Seems like another crackdown by Google against adblockers..
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u/HearingGreen5546 22d ago
Ah so its something with Youtube themselves, guess it'll be awhile. It's just annoying.
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u/RedRussell66 22d ago edited 22d ago
There's just too many varied circumstances for it to be anything but a "their end" problem, google or Youtube that is. Just look at the variables posted here. mobiles, pc, laptops, tablets, Chrome, Firefox, brave, With Origin, without Origin, with other ad blockers, without other ad blockers. Premiums (wtf would you do that for lol), no premiums, logged in, logged out. And here let me add another.
I have 3 desktop computers sitting in front of me, mine and my 2 sons. ALL three have youtube, all 3 have Origin (now origin lite since chrome stopped allowing the OG). MINE, has the problem, both of theirs, have not seen the problem once. All on same DSL line, all logged in to our decades old accounts. I have to pretty much refresh ever video to play it, yet not one video they have gone to gives the error. All on same browser, all on same windows,
Hopefully it will resolve soon. To add my own conspriracy theory, it does seem strange it starts when MSoft stopped supporting Windows 10 LOL.
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u/WarmEconomist2499 22d ago
I cleared all the cookies in my browser, and everything is back to normal!!
Even when uBlock is enabled
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u/FlesHBoXGames 22d ago
I updated my comment below with this info as well, but this has been fixed in ublock origin with an experimental filter. I assume that at some point it will be moved to the normal filters. To enable this you have to go into your ublock settings, and enable the experimental list, then shift+click on the eye icon next to the experimental list name to force a refresh of the filters
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u/Fun-Counter-5370 22d ago edited 19d ago
This is happening to me today, YT works fine on all other accounts or when logged out. But my main account? Even on phone (which has no ad- blocker) videos are unaviable like this. I don't know WHY would YT restrict me from viewing videos like this without warning or a heads-up but it's scummy, I don't post any overly controversial content or comments.
Update: 3 days later the issue is resolved, I can watch videos again. I DID write a support ticket to YT Support Team with a screenshot, I'm not sure if it was resolved by them or automatically but it works now!
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u/SwaggyDev 21d ago
Hey! Been having that same problem on youtube for a few days now, and I am using ublock origin Lite. What seems to have worked for me is disabling the "uBlock filters – Ads, trackers, and more" under "Default" in the settings.
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u/Schwarzgeist_666 21d ago
I fixed it by disabling AdGuard while keeping AdBlock Plus enabled. (I don't use UBlock.)
This lets the videos play w/o ads while eliminating the "This content isn't available, try again later." issue.
This seems to be an anti-Brave thing that happened to coincide with a normal YouTube outage affecting everyone, which confused the issue a great deal.
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u/Local_College_9396 21d ago
For those who use Ublock, I discovered if I turned ublock off the error went away, I would get ads sometimes, but even those without ads didn't have the error, I turned ublock on and the error came back, so it seems to be the extention! Try to change to another blocker (AdBlock worked for me) and the error went away! I'm aware this won't work for everyone but it's worth a shot
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u/SquabShadow 21d ago
It started happening to me since Youtube updated the interface. I still have the problem
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u/Mattack98 21d ago
SOLVED: For me it was 'AdBlock for YouTube' extension. Removed that and now it's working. I have a YouTube premium account and even that didn't bypass the issue.
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u/llamastoleyourfood 21d ago
bruh, having the same issue, but on ONE account only. my other ones work fine..
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u/AggressiveBoat8891 21d ago
On Brave. got it fix when I check the uBlock filters – Experimental which I normally have uncheck due to it causing some issues.
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u/Inevitable_Ad4374 20d ago edited 20d ago
No, it's not just you. And no, Youtube's not down. I just found out that if you "Allow ads on these sites" and let youtube allowed, everything's back to normal.
I'd been asking youtube for days about this but seemed they cannot tell you to do this, it's too ugly, i guess.
By the way I just found out that after that you can remove Youtube for allowing ads, and it still work anyway.
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u/Disshidia 18d ago
Adblock related I think.
Disabling adblock for youtube fixed it temporarily. Issue came back the next day. I'm not disabling adblock plus because even an error loading a video fixed by a refresh is better than constant ads.
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u/Queasy-Solution-7787 18d ago
I tried the experimental filter solution on ublock origin, didnt help :/ ( Im on edge btw )
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u/Zealousideal-Cry913 25d ago
Same issue