MS Edge started blocking youtube

MS Edge just started blocking youtube with recent update. How do I unblock it and others I visit?

YouTube isn't blocked

PA WOODCHUCK said:

MS Edge just started blocking youtube with recent update. How do I unblock it and others I visit?

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If you have Adblocker installed, then yes, YouTube had started detecting Adblockers. I use Firefox though, and I have uBlock Origin installed along with "YouTube Ad Auto-skipper & Auto-mute"

I have no blockers installed

so how do I unblock them

Have you disabled Edge's tracking protection?

TairikuOkami said:

Have you disabled Edge's tracking protection?

How to Turn On or Off Tracking Prevention in Microsoft Edge Chromium

How to Turn On or Off Tracking Prevention in Microsoft Edge Chromium Microsoft has adopted the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to create better web compatibility. This new Microsoft Edge runs on the same Ch

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didn't help, same results on both of our desktop PC's dell Alien R11 & R16

Wife's 3 year old Dell YT works OK!

PA WOODCHUCK said:

I have no blockers installed

so how do I unblock them

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Once on YT Home screen try refreshing the page before opening a video.

PA WOODCHUCK said:

didn't help, same results on both of our desktop PC's dell Alien R11 & R16

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What DNS and antivirus do you use, there could be also other realtime software interfering, try closing all.

TairikuOkami said:

What DNS and antivirus do you use, there could be also other realtime software interfering, try closing all.

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Or do you have any VPN running?

So you’re seeing a youtube ad block notice and it’s only happening with MS Edge?

antivirus-defender
No VPN
Now finding more blocked video... i.e. local news CBS show up as blocked video

everything works ok with firefox

Disable ALL extensions on edge and see if it works.

@TairikuOkami, has MS enabled disable autoplay settings in Edge again yet?
@PA WOODCHUCK can you look in your edge settings and look for “Cookies & Site Permissions” and look for “Media Autoplay” I’d like to know if they reenabled it and if it might be causing issues? If it’s set to Block, change it to Allow.
I can’t check, I uninstalled Edge from my PC’s

UPDATE: Never did find why it was blocking YT, but ad-block popped up near top of edge asking if I want to permit YT, which I Oke'd. I never did find ad-block control panel/options again where I could block/unblock but have noticed pages I visit now show adds.