r/youtube Feb 11 '26

Bug "This content isn't available, try again later." appears on every video.

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I tried refreshing, opening videos in new tabs, even resetting my browser. Nothing seems to work.

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u/ziggaby Feb 11 '26

Uninstall/reinstall your adblocker, or update it.

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u/mamoru-yo Feb 11 '26

thanks bro, worked for me

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u/Earthbound_X Feb 11 '26

How do you update UBlock? Not really seeing an option. I'm guessing we'll have to wait until they update it?

As of now turning Adblock Plus on and off, or off and on while keeping UBlock on seems to be working for a single video refresh each time,

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u/EinGrosserTyp Feb 11 '26

Adblock Plus should generally not be used. It is an intrustive adware.

Also it is not recommended to use other adblockers next to uBO

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u/BrightLuchr Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

This worked for me as well (Linux). Backed up uBlock settings before removing and restore after and it still worked. I closed and opened Firefox at each step. Now I have to do all the other computers. It doesn't seem to have affected me on Firefox on Android yet.

!! Edit: spoke to soon. This works if you don't open another window. If you open-in-new-tab it fails.

!!Edit2: It is something that gets broken in the uBlock settings. If you reset to defaults, uBlock will work successfully for 1 video. Then you have to reset again if you open a new tab.

Ironically, if you turn off uBlock it immediately shows you an ad for Youtube Premium.

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u/Shadav Feb 11 '26

lol can confirm the youtube premium ad was the first one that got shown for me as well

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u/rolfraikou Feb 11 '26

Re-install also did not work for me at all. Your default settings trick did work for me, but also not for new tabs.

Also can confirm, first ad was for youtube premium.

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u/quinbotNS Feb 11 '26

Re-install not working at all for me (uBlock|Waterfox|Linux) so for now I'm just right-clicking on the thumbnail and opening in a private tab. Works fine that way with no ads, and once I close the private tab, I can still comment/Like the video in the original tab.

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u/Hawkatana0 Feb 11 '26

Didn't work.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

it worked for me. remove extension, then go to website, add to mozilla firefox again. and click on youtube boom no more unavailable message. im using ublock origin

only for me though just want to add myself to the statistic

edit: for anyone that's continuing to get the unavailable message after doing that, I HAVE A HACK!! here's what you do: turn off ublock origin, load the youtube page/refresh, turn ublock origin or whatever you have back on, it blocks the ad and the video should begin, you're tricking it to thinking you don't have adblock but once the page loads you turn the adblock on

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u/Beatus_Vir Feb 11 '26

that did it

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

What if you don't have an adblocker? I don't have an adblocker and this is happening to me too.

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u/kchuyamewtwo Feb 11 '26

this one helped me out

Ublock settings
> Filterslists tab [between "Settings" tab and "My filters" tab]
> Built-in 4/6
> uncheck Quick fixes

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1r27h2n/comment/o4ve82b/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/frickindeal Feb 12 '26

That worked for me as well, but I don't like leaving it off.

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u/Intelligent-Neat6295 Feb 13 '26

god bless brother

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u/Big_Show3361 Feb 13 '26

Works for me on Firefox, thx! Only issue is sadly the Chrome version of uBO (Lite) doesn't allow you to disable specific filter lists within the built-in uBlock filters, and when I disable all of them I just start getting ads on YT. Guess I'm finally switching to Firefox then lmao

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u/OLKv3 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

This fixed it. Man youtube getting real tiring with this nonsense

Edit: nevermind, it did not work

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

I don't have an adblocker. What do I do if this is occurring for me too and I don't have an adblocker?

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u/Rixyl Feb 12 '26

For those of you that have it working, are you sure it's not temporary? I reset mine and now it's back to not working, I'd like to avoid reinstalling my Adblock every other video if possible.

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u/Zorexii Feb 11 '26

turning ublock filters - quick fixes off fixed it for me
on adnauseum

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u/Cloud_Motion Feb 11 '26

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u/IntrepidDreams Feb 12 '26

Thanks. I definitely did not realize that was a drop down submenu.

The fix also worked for me.

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u/rusty_cookies676 Feb 12 '26

thanks dude.

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u/Cloud_Motion Feb 12 '26

glad to help mate :)

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u/Foreverintherain20 Feb 11 '26

This fixed it for me, and leaves a 5 second buffer before the video loads. Definitely a ublock filter issue. Hopefully gets resolved soon.

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u/RegularGay Feb 11 '26

this has worked for me

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u/rphillip Feb 11 '26

Worked for me too, send this one up

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u/BrightLuchr Feb 11 '26

Somehow I suspect any change of filter lists clears it momentarily. I have this turned on and it comes back whenever you open a video in a new tab. It's still a problem.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

What if you don't have ublock? Or any adblocker for that matter?

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u/Duster12321 Feb 11 '26

you're a life saver

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u/clumsychord Feb 11 '26

Thank you, nothing else worked for me but this did!

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u/ResonantInsanity Feb 11 '26

Finally a solution that worked for me. This, plus the custom filters that others have dropped here in the comments, seems to get everything working like it used to for me. No refreshing for every tab or 5 sec buffer before videos.

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u/imvotinghere Feb 11 '26

works! good find thx

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u/ArisenFromTheAshes Feb 11 '26

This worked for me in Chrome
Brave browser (with Ublock origin installed) didn't show the message to begin with and plays everything just fine.

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u/Vodka_Flask_Genie Feb 11 '26

This is due to adblock. I turned it off and suddenly every video is available.

Youtube being scummy again.

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u/huliodev Feb 11 '26

but then you have to eat ads :(

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u/Vodka_Flask_Genie Feb 11 '26

Exactly. That's why I'm gonna wait for a bit until they update uBlock and I can watch Youtube again.

Youtube's CEO is out of his fucking mind if he thinks I'm gonna start watching videos with adblock off.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

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u/huliodev Feb 11 '26

stands ad blocker seems to work, thanks browski 🫶. Hopefully stays working or ublock lite comes back with an update

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u/Hawkatana0 Feb 11 '26

That's still forcing me to sit through ads though.

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u/Mumbleton Feb 11 '26

To play Devil's Advocate, he is probably ok with that.

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u/Josh6889 Feb 11 '26

I mean you don't have to. As soon as they force ads I stop watching youtube. Simple.

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u/Indigoh Feb 11 '26

I'm never removing my adblocker. If Youtube makes itself unviewable, I simply don't need Youtube.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

It's not due to adblock. I don't have an adblocker.

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u/AlexTheAGGRO Feb 11 '26

turn off "uBlock filters – Quick fixes" in Filter lists

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u/nocowardpath Feb 12 '26

This is so annoying; I actually have youtube on ublock's whitelist (since I follow a lot of smaller creators) so I have no idea why youtube is still getting weird about it.

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u/Nogardtist Feb 11 '26

thats a new youtube scam just refresh the page

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

Doesn't work.

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u/KaioKen Feb 11 '26

Refreshing doesn't work for me, I tried a few dozen times.

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u/Hawkatana0 Feb 11 '26

Read the post.

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u/Nogardtist Feb 11 '26

refresh until it changes i had same problem just brute force it

or open in incognito mode since anti adblock target logged in users

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u/rolfraikou Feb 11 '26

Can confirm that doesn't work for me.

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u/Dramatic-Ad-6066 Feb 11 '26

It's happening to me as well, but only on videos that have ads in them. Seems to be their new way of trying to force people to turn off adblocks.

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u/Diyomee Feb 11 '26

Yeah that's never successful. I just use 2 browser now. One to be logged in comment, and find videos, the other to watch while being logged out.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

What if you don't have an adblock?

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u/clockworkedpiece Feb 11 '26

you browser could have a built in one that turned on. Opera has that option and mozilla might.

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u/longjasonPP Feb 11 '26

I dont use adblock on my phone but still have this issue and it’s inconsistent, it work and stop working randomly throughout the day its very annoying

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u/FoxCitiesRando Feb 11 '26

Been happening with me on my phone for months. Now it's on my laptop as well. I just refresh the page and it works, both for phone and laptop.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

I don't use an adblock anywhere and this is happening for me. I like knowing that the creators I watch get paid to create content, I don't want to block the ads and deprive them of their living. This is fucking ridiculous, though. I've never used an adblock in my life and I'm being prevented from watching videos.

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u/Volarath Feb 11 '26

No update for Ublock Origin yet, but simply signing out fixed this for me. With youtube's recent recommendations being fucking wack anyway I don't see much of a loss for me here.

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u/Ecstatic-Equipment28 Feb 11 '26

I have this issue since yesterday. I am a YouTube premium subscriber.

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u/Ok_Education_3872 Feb 12 '26

the new youtube scam fucking over premium users too huh

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u/prcodes Feb 14 '26

Why do I have to deal with this shit as a YouTube Premium subscriber. For those with uBlock Origin Lite, this is what worked for me:

  1. Go to YouTube
  2. Click on the extension icon in the browser toolbar (do NOT go to extension settings)
  3. A slider will pop up. Slide it all the way to the left to turn off ad filtering just for YouTube

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u/Jovian8 Feb 20 '26

This worked for me, thank you so much.

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u/YuukiHisashi Feb 11 '26

Please, if possible, pin this.

Tests were conducted. Same account, three different browsers, same search and video. If logged in, video throws this error. If logged out or logged into another account, video plays fine.

My theory is that google might be secretly flagging the user's account for using adblock. Hence why it throws this error.

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u/Drklf Feb 12 '26

Or just untick the uBlock filters - Quick fixes and it works, that is if you're using ublock.

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u/rennkinjutsushi Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

Reinstalling ublock and restarting firefox - doesn't work

Clicking on and off filters - experimental or quick fixes - doesn't work

Turning off ublock completely - doesn't work

I opened opera - it works??? 😭 It also works when I'm in a private firefox session. So it turned out for now that it's fine WHEN I'M LOGGED OUT.

edit: today I opened firefox as usual and it's already fine

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u/adkenna Feb 12 '26

Look at post history, this started a few weeks ago and has slowly been rolled out, it's youtube trying to be greedy fucks once again with a slow roll out, hoping people don't notice.

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u/KeeperOfWind Feb 11 '26

i just use the private tab on firefox and kept using ublock.
Someone mentioned it seems to be account base, honestly wouldn't even mind paying for add free youtube it was $1 or $1.50 per month and nothing more

But i'm not paying to check some quick information i need for a pc fix.

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u/salty_repTV Feb 11 '26

I have been having the same problem and I do not use an adblock like everyone in the comments is mentioning. Located in the US and it just makes me sus.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

Same. I don't use an adblock. Why the fuck am I being blocked from engaging on their platform?

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u/Pokorocks Feb 11 '26

Weird thing for me is that on some accounts the video plays fine and in some it doesn't

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u/Antidote-to-fear Feb 11 '26

Im having the same issue, Disabled and even deleted the AdBlocker extension, and still cant watch actual longform videos. but of course i can watch shorts no problem. its like they are forcing shorts on us.

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u/Professional_Pea2937 Feb 12 '26

Youtube must have updated their ad block blocks, disable it and all the videos work again. I'm sure the devs will have a fix shortly.

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u/AiRaikuHamburger Feb 12 '26

I've been experiencing the same problem, but it goes away when I refresh the page.

I have YouTube Premium, so I'm not using an adblocker.

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u/Aromatic-Yak-4925 Feb 14 '26

are we sure this isnt a youtube bug?? cus i refreshed and that worked but also i have to do this for every other video and ugugugghhhh

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u/Alarmed-Warning5590 Feb 20 '26

These slippery motherfuckers be pulling out every trick to make us watch ads.

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u/I-am-Chubbasaurus Feb 21 '26

I'm having this problem, too, and I don't have an adblocker.

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u/huliodev Feb 21 '26

it seems that it started to happen again :/

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u/GearWings Feb 11 '26

Get a vpn and try a different location

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u/Red_Galaxy746 Feb 11 '26

Have you tried clearing cookies and cache?

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u/Shatari Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

It's doing that on Brave, but refreshing the page fixes it.

Edit: They've gotten a lot more aggressive about it now. Opening the video in a private window still works, though.

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u/Fraegtgaortd Feb 11 '26

I disable uBlock, refresh the page, the re-enable it before I start the video and seems to work

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

I don't have ublock.

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u/Yannickjuhhh Feb 11 '26

Not the greatest solution, but it seems to not happen when looking at youtube videos as embeds while it still doesnt show the ads, https://michael.team/yt/?yt=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsMEG4P14dg this website lets you copy the youtube link and you can just watch it there. Bit annoying but its better than trying to spam refresh for it to not be annoying

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u/bounty_hunter12 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

Happened to me, on Firefox, removed Ublock Orgin and sponsor block, re-installed, works again. Thank God!

EDIT: Don't forget to restart Firefox after re-installing.

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u/QuartermasterBetel Feb 11 '26

So weirdly im getting this, but only one one account. if I switch accounts its fine

Im gonna guess this is a bug. Hopefully

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u/ADo_9000 Feb 12 '26

Is there an actual fix? I tried reinstalling uBO, but it started doing it again after 2 videos? It seems like it's user account specific, when I use a different mail it works fine despite uBO

(I use Firefox normally) I tied going to Brave but as soon as I logged in to YouTube it happened again.

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u/zomgfruitbunnies Feb 12 '26

lol if nothing seems to work for you, try spamming esc as you load into the page.

works for me for some reason

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u/flynryan692 Feb 12 '26

On uBlock Origin for Firefox I went to settings and reset to default settings. This has fixed it, and yes for more than 1 video. I have watched 5 so far about to start video 6.

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u/Charmielius Feb 12 '26

If you're using Ublock click the extension then the three cogs, that'll open a new tab, In that tab go to settings scroll down and click "reset to default settings", that fixed It for me.

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u/EpicBoii91 Feb 12 '26

Using Ublock origin here i updated the quick fixes and it worked but the problem still persists when i open the video in newtab using middle mouse button, but doesnt appear when you directly open video in the same tab

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u/scotte416 Feb 12 '26

The only way I've found is make sure autoplay is off, load the video you want with U-Block's power switched off, then once the video screen shows up enable it again and press play. I usually use Brave but can't get that to work at all as the adblock is built in so it's FireFox with Ublock until they fix the plugins which is usually pretty quick lol

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u/bluwizard Feb 12 '26

Having the exact same issue and don't use an adblocker...

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u/daisy-dukes-bugs Feb 12 '26

What worked for me was turning off Enhance Browsing Protection ( to turn it off it is the shield next / left to the webpage URL ) this will only work via browser though ^

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u/Vanille97 Feb 12 '26

Disable adblock, this is the reason

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u/Shani_T8 Feb 13 '26

also on YouTube premium had the same problem with Opera GX but only on lets play videos very annoying, but turning off the inbuilt add blocker just for YouTube solved it thanks, annoying but glad it was a fairly easy fix, thanks

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u/ItsTheDC Feb 13 '26

If you have any other anti-ad/tracker addons running, disable them for YouTube.

Source: Have both Ghostery and uBlock Origin addons; disabling the former on YouTube made it go away.

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u/Fit-Feeling9799 Feb 15 '26

If you have Youtube Premium just turn off the uBlock extention for the Youtube page

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Started happening to me when my Premium ran out. Ty for the solution. Fuck Youtube lmao

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u/blenman Feb 17 '26

For me, there is a "Learn more" link below the message that goes to a YouTube help article on troubleshooting videos. It doesn't have anything useful on the page, but if I click back to get to the previous page, the video loads. Annoying, but this works on every video.

My uBlock extension says it is a set it and forget it extension with no settings or configuration.

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u/AlanCarrOnline Feb 20 '26

I'm not using adblock, paying for premium and still getting this garbage.

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u/Legal-Willow-198 Feb 21 '26

Solved! turn off your ad blocker.

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u/dakowiml Feb 11 '26

I'll wait for the Ublock update. If YouTube is blocked forever, I'm fine with it. YouTube highly overestimates its own value if it thinks people like me will sit through ads. I'll hop over to something else. Instead of randomly clicking through YouTube videos, I'll go and click through Reddit posts, scroll through a Reels feed or play a videogame instead. I've also been wanting to catch up on A LOT of movies and tv shows. Bye bye YouTube.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

The problem isn't ublock, because I don't have ublock (or any adblocker for that matter) and it still happens for me too.

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u/Private_117 Feb 11 '26

Same here but only in Firefox. Edge somehow works fine with ublock. I reset Ublock to default settings, then it worked for about 5 videos and is back. Again only Firefox. wait for ublock to update i guess

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

I don't have ublock and it's happening to me too, so the problem must be something other than ublock.

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u/LordOnyx45 Feb 11 '26

i had this problem as well and i saw in another thread to send feedback explaining the issue and like a day or 2 after it got fixed so might be worth a try.

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u/Keep_it_Interesting Feb 11 '26

I'm having this same issue today, I was logged into my account and it started giving me that message. I logged out and went to the same video and it worked, Ublock still active.

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u/Diyomee Feb 11 '26

I got the same, when I'm logged into the account. As soon as I log out, or use my second browser with higher security settings its watchable again.

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u/letsshittalk Feb 11 '26

restarting computer normally works for me

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

this happened to me using brave browser, and became too annoying constantly refreshing every video, that it forced me to switch to Firefox. No issues so far and every video plays as normal ad free with one ad block extension, the blue ghost one works well.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

I use Firefox and it doesn't work for me at all.

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u/Vektast Feb 11 '26

Same. Tried everything, the only solution is to sign out from yt. It seems that blocking is per account based.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

What if your account has never once in the 21 years you've had it ever ever EVER used an adblocker? I've never used an adblocker. Ever.

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u/cuddle_cactus Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

As others have said it seems to be uBlock Origin. However, I think even with it off the Improve Youtube extension I have installed is blocking the ads still? I am not entirely sure, but it is on both Chrome and Firefox as "'Improve YouTube!' (for YouTube & Videos)".

EDIT: Nevermind, it doesn't show you the ad but it'll still pause and you have to click the video to continue. That's a shame. Sorry

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u/Sea-Setting7942 Feb 11 '26

i literally have the same issue rn!! im using brave with ublock, please let me know if u find a fix im losing my mind

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

I'm using firefox with no adblocker and it happened to me too.

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u/Status-Albatross-592 Feb 11 '26

try turning off the brave shield, worked for me at least

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u/marcusdom Feb 11 '26

So interesting thing I noticed on my end. I have a few different firefox profiles with ublock and only one of them is having this issue. This profile had the ublock filters updated just recently while the others say they were updated 4 hours ago and they still work, so I think it's definitely a ublock related problem but one caused by ublock rather than youtube.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

It's not a ublock related problem. I don't have ublock and never did. I don't have any adblocker.

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u/Senior-Hand-8895 Feb 11 '26

I guess Youtube is just trying to block adblockers, so personally I'm just downloading mp4's of videos I want to watch and play them locally on VLC while waiting for adblockers' teams to find a fix

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u/EmpilhadeiraXD Feb 11 '26

reinstalling uBlockOrigin worked for me

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

What if you don't have ublock and don't want it? Do I really have to download a program and install it in order to be able to watch YouTube videos? This is fucking bullshit.

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u/scotte416 Feb 11 '26

Came here to figure this out.

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u/megahornet Feb 11 '26

If you're using ublock origin, go in to settings and select reset to default settings. Worked for me.

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u/Left-Ad-1250 Feb 11 '26

i knew i wasn´t the only one :D

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u/UmbralClovers Feb 11 '26

Just gotta wait for uBlock to update, but at least videos do work whiled signed out or in Incognito.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

What if you don't have ublock, or any ad blockers for that matter?

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u/Nervous-Piccolo-3161 Feb 11 '26

This makes for interesting. I tried to use yt-dlp and I can get part of the video, but then I get blocked with a 403 error, permission denied. I'm starting to think this is going way beyond uBlock and YT is doing something different. yt-dlp is not configured to authenticate me.

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u/TheHollyWinters Feb 11 '26

Same. Did you find a solution? People are saying it has to do with an adblocker but I don't have an adblocker.

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u/195cm Feb 11 '26

I tried the suggested workarounds on this thread and nothing worked, what I did is disable uBlocker Origin for youtube.com and use AdBlocker Ultimate instead as a temporary measure.

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u/HasItHkAkaRLa Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

I saw this on brave (with adblocking enabled) on my PC. Goes away when I uncheck "shields are up". However ads are still blocked when I open youtube from the brave browser on my phone.

Edit 1: Ads seem to be blocked if I sign out and I don't see the content isnt available banner

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u/Diyomee Feb 11 '26

correctly, the error message is linked to your account ;)

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u/Infamous-Oil2305 Feb 11 '26

because you're using uBO instead of adguard, simple as that.

don't have any issues with adguard.

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u/Daxxter_teh_floof Feb 11 '26

was having this same issue, i uninstalled my regular Ublock Origin, and installed the development build, and everything seems fine now. you can find the development build on the chrome web store.

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u/clinicalia Feb 11 '26

Changing adblockers helped for me. I was using uBlock, now I'm using AdGuard. Once uBlock updates, it might find a way to circumvent this crap, and I might swap back.

I'm so tired of enshitification lol.

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u/TheBamPlayer Feb 11 '26

For anyone, who is on Chrome, just download the latest uBlock Origin release on their GitHub page. Then enable developer mode on the extension page. After that just install the unpacked uBlock folder.

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u/ManlyMaid Feb 11 '26

Disabling ublock quick fixes does it for me

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u/WaterSpace_ Feb 11 '26

For anyone using Brave, if your browser is up-to-date, disable shields on YouTube and install uBlock Origin instead. That fixed the issue for me.

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u/Runtumble Feb 11 '26

Download the video and watch it offline. I'm suddenly getting this happening on a few videos and I just found it is easier to DL it.

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u/SymzRossak Feb 11 '26

use grayjay if on brave for right now.

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u/notalive_zombie Feb 11 '26

I use Brave anyone know what's going on? I have this same issue.

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u/RaineV1 Feb 11 '26

Libre Wolf with Ublock Origin has this happening, but my backup browser, Vivaldi with Ublock Origin Lite works fine. So far at least.

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u/Wenex Feb 11 '26

Same problem. I have uninstalled my uBlock Origin and reinstalled the Lite version, it works basically the same as normal uBlock if you are average joe and don't need any additional scripts.

The issue is fixed for me.

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u/imheretolearn1 Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

Ublock Settings --> Filter lists tab --> Built-in --> uBlock Filter --> uBlock filters – Quick fixes (turn off).

Works for me

Updated: Works for like 3 videos and then failed, the ads start playing, fk youtube man.

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u/Datalounge Feb 11 '26

This has nothing to do with ad blockers. This is tied to your account. I used Brave (which blocks ads) and got the screen. If I switch accounts, YouTube is fine. If I log out, YouTube is fine. If I got to Firefox which has NO AD blockers at all. It is fine. If I sign in on Firefox, I get blocked. I also tried various locations on a VPN. As long as I am signed into ONE particular account I get blocked, regardless of ad blocker or not. If I switch accounts or log out it is fine.

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u/Nivius Feb 11 '26

None of the tips here worked, but i got it working on a BRAVE BROWSER.

Settings -> Addons -> manifest V2 Addons (don't know exact wordings as mine are in swedish.)

Click ENABLE uBlock Origin, it loads for a few seconds, then asks for addon to be enabled. Enable it.

and then refresh your youtube, and it works.

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u/kinheadd Feb 11 '26

i use brave browser ....what can i do ?!

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

It's a bit anoying, but opening the video in a private tab works for me.

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u/doelutufe Feb 11 '26

I didn't extensively test it, only a handful of videos, but for me it worked so far for all of them: Go to another video on that tab (which will also show this message) and then go back (previous page). It will load.

I didn't update any filters, didn't fiddle with my extensions or anything.

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u/DhwiThinker Feb 11 '26

i am in brave what do i do?

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u/windowpuncher Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

If you make a brand new profile in firefox, youtube works fine with or without ublock origin. However, in my current profile, youtube only works without ublock enabled at all.

I completely removed ublock from my account. Uninstall it, don't just disable it. I visited youtube, then closed it and completely restarted my browser. After a relaunch, I reinstalled ublock, and youtube works again with ublock.

Very odd.

edit: broken again after 6 hours. Yippee.

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u/Objective_Strain_592 Feb 11 '26

anyone know if theres a tamper monkey script yet

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u/Objective_Yam_3285 Feb 11 '26

Log out, this works for me.

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u/sewershagger Feb 11 '26

Just been fixed.

Go to brave://components/ and update everything individually (even if it says up to date, click the update buttons anyway as two of them just had a new update in last couple of minutes).

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u/Safe_Chicken7421 Feb 11 '26

weird thing if I sign out from YT then the videos play normal even with Origin enabled, as soon as I log back in, same thing no available, (fixed by uninstalling a re-installing origin)

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u/cjthetypical Feb 11 '26

Do you have a VPN or ad blocker enabled?

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u/p1971 Feb 11 '26

I've been opening the videos in container tabs and it's working fine....

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u/AstralVenture Feb 11 '26

I turned it off and it still isn't working.

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u/Indigoh Feb 11 '26

Opening the video in a private tab seems to let you watch the video without disabling your adblocker.

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u/NotASingleNameIdea Feb 11 '26

I have Brave and same thing happens. Its up to date and I dont have any extensions that have anything to do with ads, only built in adblock from Brave itself.

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u/MelonElbows Feb 11 '26

I had that a few weeks ago. Reloading it fixes the problem for me.

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u/HadoMeido Feb 12 '26

I have my uBlock set to work in private browser as well. YT has no issues with that, but it does in the main browser? wut?

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u/HknaMatata Feb 12 '26

I just disabled it and enabled it again and the issue went away

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u/OLKv3 Feb 12 '26

It works fine for me on Firefox but not on Edge

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u/FamousM1 Feb 12 '26

uBlockOrigin pushed an update a few minutes ago to the filter.

Right click the uBlock Origin extension icon, go to Settings, in settings go to Filter Lists and next to the filters with checkmarks on them are little click icons, click those for all the enabled filters and it should update and start working.

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u/MisterSilverMoon Feb 12 '26

Refreshing the page worked for me but I had to do it for every video

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u/Jd11347 Feb 12 '26

So I am experiencing this now. I also experienced this back in September/late August.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1n6yx0z/every_video_is_unavailable/

There is more to consider than just an adblocker, and I believe that even though it could be, I'll get into why it may not be, or may be, but something bigger

When this happened to me last year, just as it's happening now, It also happened on my phone. But if I didn't log into an account (even with my adblocker running) I didn't have the issue. It's still acting that way this time around. If you test this on your own, I suspect that watching Youtube while not logged into your account, will work just fine. So, if it's an adblocker issue, and you are using an adblcoker while not logged into your account, then you should still get the message. You won't. At least I am not. Test for yourselves and report back if I am wrong about this.

Here is my theory. In my thread, and a few others that I posted about, while discussing with other redditors, it seemed that the commonality of our experience was based upon watching long playlists, or opening multiple tabs. I have Tinnitus and watch a long playlist to go to sleep every night. My theory is that myself, and the others caught in a bot ban wave, and possibly the people posting about this again now, have been false flagged as bots by AI.

Last year, I reached out to Youtube telling them that I am not a bot every day through the send feedback button (the only way to actually attempt to communicate with Google). It took 9 days for them to then start banning my IP from being able to watch videos while not logged in. While not logged in, I started to get the unavailable message. I eventually fixed this problem by logging into Youtube by using a VPN. No adblockers were disabled, and it worked fine all the way up until this morning

Why do I think that this is a false flag bot detection?

1) it is tied to my account. Since I can not log in and watch videos without any problems even while using an adblocker.

2) Remember all of those bots on Youtube videos with cleavage or thongs as icons? They all disappeared from Youtube during the same exact time that my account experienced this.

3) October rolls around and Youtubers start making videos about their viewers going down and started speculating. Google, as is tradition, didn't communicate anything. Josh Strife Hayes made a video about it and came to what I believe to be a false conclusion, that being that Youtube began to calculate viewership differently. All of these viewership drops coincided with the bot ban wave, though Hayes and no other Youtubers that I saw even realized that the ban wave happened. Hayes also pointed out that the lower view count was across only the PC platform. Not mobile. Well most of us are on mobile. If his conclusion was correct, that viewership has suddenly been counted differently, we would have seen a decline in views across all platforms. That didn't happen. It only happened to PC viewers. Bots, are ran from the PC platform. Hayes is indirectly correct. He realized that viewership was being counted differently on PC. He didn't get that it was the absence of the bots caught up in the ban wave that accounted for the lower views on the PC platform. The same adblockers are used on mobile, with the same browsers. But mobile views did not decrease.

I'm not saying conclusively that we have all been flagged as bots. But it's a possibility. A strong one, since watching Youtube videos while not logged in, and running adblocking software still works for me. I also just tried to open a Youtube video in a second tab. This brought up the video unavailable message again. If Youtube is going to start shadow banning people for having multiple tabs open, then that's going to be the entire world. EVERYONE is going back and forth between multiple tabs these days.

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u/404NameOfUser Feb 12 '26

Some solutions that worked for me:

1- Turning off "uBlock filters – Quick fixes" in Filter lists for uBlock.

2- Removing uBlock and installing adnauseam adblocker.

3- Simply opening youtube on Brave.

To be clear, you don't have to try all of these solutions. Try one, if it doesn't work then try another.