YouTube’s Anti-Ad Block Message

Ad blocking is getting harder on YouTube.

As an Adblock Plus user, YouTube may occasionally prevent you from playing videos when your ad blocker is turned on. Sometimes a message will ask you to allow YouTube ads after three videos and other times it won’t let you play anything until Adblock Plus is turned off.

As we work on keeping our extension up-to-date and effective, YouTube continually works to stop ad blockers on their site. We know this causes you to have an unpredictable and less-than-ideal experience whether you see this message or not. We are doing everything we can to make this experience better for our users.

To ensure that you’re able to access YouTube with Adblock Plus installed, all you have to do is add YouTube to your allowlist. You can choose whether to allow ads once or always allow ads on YouTube. Of course, we’ll continue to block annoying ads everywhere else you browse. Wherever you are on the web, Adblock Plus also gives you the ability to use custom blocking rules to hide distractions on web pages. (This feature is available to Chrome, Edge, and Firefox users.)

In the meantime, we’ll continue to block pop-ups and other annoying ads for you across the web.

We appreciate all of your support!